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Point 1
Ch. 3, Pg. 39 - "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." This is Atticus's advice to Scout. He tells her this during their conversation on their front porch. It is an explictit theme. -
Point 2 (Part 2)
-> leave him alone. In this situation, Scout applied Atticus's advice about showing empathy towards others to Jem. -
Point 2 (Part 1)
Ch. 7, Pg. 77 - "As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him." Jem has been moody for a while since he went to the Radley place at two in the morning and found his pants there mended and folded, which he had lost at the Radley place earlier. Scout has realized this and decides to -> -
Point 3 (Part 2)
-> and doesn't show any empathy towards black people, like Tom Robinson. He doesn't want Jem or Scout to become like this. -
Point 3 (Part 1)
Ch. 9, Pg. 117 - Atticus says, "I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through this without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb's usual disease.... I just hope Jem and Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town." Atticus is worried about his case relating to Jem and Scout. He is talking about it to Uncle Jack. He knows that Scout is listening to their conversation, but he lets her listen. Atticus knows the town of Maycomb is mostly racist -> -
Point 5
Ch. 11, Pgs. 139-140 - "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." Atticus is talking to Scout about his case. This is after Jem whacked the tops off of Mrs. Dubose's camellias and Atticus is making Jem go back to talk with Mrs. Dubose. Scout is mad at Atticus for making Jem go to Mrs. Dubose. They get into talking about Atticus's case after this. This shows that even though the town of Maycomb doesn't show empathy towards everyone, Atticus does. -
Point 4
Ch. 12, Pg. 167 - "'Cal,' I asked, 'why do you talk nigger-talk to the - to your folks when you know it's not right?'" Scout and Jem are at Calpurnia's church. This shows that Scout isn't thinking empathetically all of the time yet because her saying this shows that she is thinking provincially about Cal and all of the black people at the church. -
Point 6
Ch. 15, Pg. 204 - "Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?" Scout says this to Mr. Cunningham at the Maycomb jail while a group of men are confronting Atticus. This makes Mr. Cunningham uncomfortable. This shows that not everyone in Maycomb lacks empathy towards everyone. This line made Mr. Cunningham realize that he had his own problems like others and decided to show some empathy towards Tom Robinson and Atticus. This is what took him out of the mob. -
Point 7
Ch. 16, Pg. 210 - "You children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute." Atticus talks to Jem and Scout about the previous night, when Atticus was confronted by a group of men at the Maycomb jail. This shows that Atticus knows that Mr. Cunningham was showing empathy to him the previous night, and that this lead Mr. Cunningham to understand his situation. It also shows that there are good people in Maycomb who show empathy towards others. -
Point 8
Ch. 20, Pgs. 271-272 - "She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance." Atticus is making his closing argument to the jury. This is one of the things that he talks about in it. This shows that Atticus, once again, is showing empathy towards others, and it leads him to understand and show compassion. -
Point 9 (Part 2)
-> others compassion. -
Point 9 (Part 1)
Ch. 31, Pg. 374 - "Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough." Scout has taken Boo Radley back to his house and she is now remembering and reflecting on her past experiences and learnings. This shows that Scout has not only learned what Atticus told her about empathy, she has learned to show it to everyone and that it will lead her to understand others and show ->
