To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is about a lawyer named Atticus who chooses to defend a African-American man named Tom just as equally as he would defend a white man in a court room. This novel takes place in the 1930's when there was racism going on between blacks and whites. Atticus is a person in the novel who choose to learn to understand others. By showing that he does this, his quote said “ 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.” In this novel there are a couple of people who have trouble understanding people, not understanding people, and doing a little bit of both. Atticus is Jem and Scouts (the narrator) father. He is a lawyer who has been chosen to defend a black man named Tom …show more content…
Dolphus Raymond is a rich white man who has mixed children. He prefers to live among blacks than in a white society. He hates the fact that when it comes to certain things that blacks are always gonna be the people that everyone can blame. He acts like a drunken man so the people of Maycomb can have a reason for his behavior. His soon to be wife shot herself before the wedding because she found out about his black mistress. Mr. Dolphus learns to understand others but also doesn't learn to understand others. He showed that he understood others by putting himself in fraud to make the people of Maycomb at ease. But also this is a way to make it seem like he didn’t understand others. His quote said” I try to give em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason….. folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey- thats why he won’t change his ways.” He makes it seem like he learns to understand others by making them think he’s a drunk but he’s just disgusted of the white society. On the other hand he makes it seem like he doesn't learn how to understand others because he’s doing all of this so people won’t bother him by asking