Standing in someone else’s shoes is about seeing what they’ve seen knowing what they know and feeling what they’ve felt. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming of story about a girl dealing with racial segregation and trying to understand others views. In the Novel Harper Lee uses Metaphor and irony to show that Atticus saying that “you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them”, is true because various characters in the novel use this advice to understand others actions.
The author uses metaphor to prove the thesis when in the novel Scout walks Boo Radley home and looks out from his porch and says “It was summertime, and the children came closer…. Summer and he watched his children’s heart break. Autumn