To Kill A Mockingbird Empathy Quotes

Empathy has always been needed in our society. Day to day people go around judging others for the way they act. What they do not know is that those people are acting the way they do because of an event that happened to them. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that is about racism, social injustice, and mainly empathy. The protagonist, Scout, is a 6 year old girl in the start of the novel that lives in a town called Maycomb. Maycomb is a place where all of the neighbors care about each other, and all have different beliefs about other townspeople. In more detail about empathy, in Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, many characters do not understand another person until they consider things through their point of view for the characters

A main character in the book that needs empathy is not only Mrs. Dubose, but also Boo Radley. In more depth, Boo Radley committed a crime when he was very young (he is in his thirties now), and instead of jail, his father decided for him to live inside of his house for the next few years that follow without taking a step outside. By Boo Radley doing this, he feels as though he is paying off the crime he committed. To illustrate, he stabbed his dad in the leg with scissors when he was young and has “never” gone out of his house according to Jem, Scout, and Dill. To get into more depth about why Boo got locked up in his house in the first place and the details for how he stabbed his father the text says, “According to neighborhood legend, when the younger Radley boy was in his teens he became acquainted with some of the Cunninghams from Old Sarum, an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the northern part of the county, and they formed the nearest thing to a gang ever seen in Maycomb…. One night, in an excessive spurt of high spirits, the boys backed around the square in a borrowed flivver, resisted arrest by Maycomb’s ancient beadle, Mr. Connor said he knew who each and every one of them was, and he was bound and determined they wouldn’t get away with it, so the boys came before the probate judge on charges of disorderly

Specifically, Francis was saying mean things to Scout about Atticus defending a person of a different race. To illustrate, Francis saw Scout at her house for Christmas and called Atticus an n-word-lover because he is defending Tom Robinson in his court case. Scout then hit him in the mouth because he was saying this, and then this caused Scout to get in trouble and everyone took Francis’ side because he is the one who got punched in the face. To describe how Scout teaches this to Uncle Jack Harper Lee writes, “Uncle Jack put his hands on his hips and looked down at me. ‘And why do I not understand children, Miss Jean Louise? Such conduct as yours required understanding. It was obstreperous, disorderly and abusive--’ ‘You gonna give me a chance to tell you? I don’t mean to sass you, I’m just tryin’ to tell you.’ Uncle Jack sat down on the bed. His eyebrows came together, and he peered up at me from under them. ‘Proceed,’ he said.”(113) This quote helps enhance the reader's information about Uncle Jack because it provides a deeper understanding for how Scout taught Uncle Jack a meaningful lesson in life. Uncle Jack conveys that even if you are mature and are an adult, you can still be learning new things every day. The reader learns from Uncle Jack’s point of view that you have to listen to both