Point of View

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around a little."-Atticus

This was said by Atticus to Scout after her first day of school. This is a lesson that Scout really takes to heart. Atticus means that you can’t judge someone until you look at things from their point of view. This was very wise, especially because of the time and place of the story. Most of Maycomb was racist and judged others based solely on skin color. This proves that Atticus is an exception and he wants his children to judge people on who they are not what they look like or what other people say about them. Scout tries her best to put herself in other people’s shoes as the book goes on. She practices with Jem when he snuck out to get his pants from the Radley house, and she tries again at Calpurnia’s church. It is not until the end of the book when she finally understands. As she stands on Boo Radley’s porch after escorting him home, she looks out over the neighborhood and imagined what everything would look like to Boo. Scout is mature beyond her years, and she proves this in that moment. It finally clicks in her head that people are usually more than they appear to be. This lesson comes full circle at the very end of the book when Scout tells Atticus that Boo was really nice. He tells her that most people were when you finally saw them.

This picture represents Scout trying to step into
other people's shoes.