“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”(30). This quote is said by the wise man named Atticus Finch. This is saying that you never really know what someone’s life is like until you become them and walk around, living their life. Prince Edward from “Prince and the Pauper” is very similar to the character, Calpurnia from “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and Edward is very different from Scout.
Prince Edward from “Prince and the Pauper” is very similar to the character, Calpurnia from “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Prince Edward is a prince who is about to become king due to the health of his father. Before this happens Edward meets a boy named Tom who looks exactly like him but is very poor. They decide to switch clothes and Edward
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In the “Prince and the Pauper” a boy named Edward, that is about to become king gets the opportunity to see life in the perspective of a poor boy named Tom. Edward makes very many realizations and learns much, and promises,”I will strive above all to improve the lives of my people”(Scene 11). Edward does this because he saw how common folks live and is not flattered by his findings. Edward is distinctly contrasted by character Scout from “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Scout has one of her classmates over for diner when he starts to put syrup all over his food, Scout stops him,”He probably have poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the sam hill he was doing”(34). Scout tells him to stop because she does not know that he is extremely hungry and does not have very many manners because he comes from a poor family and they do not get diner usually. Scout and Edward are very different because Edward has seen things from multiple point of views while Scout has not and has only seen from