Atticus Empathy Analysis

Atticus showed Scout and the reader to have empathy by understand other people’s point of view. Those things were shown well by the Movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus and Scout were talking about her the day of school and Scout complained of her “dumb” teacher trying to give a Cunningham money, and Atticus responded to that by,“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”(Harper 30) .The reader and Scout learned about empathy by Atticus telling us, in this context, what the teacher may or may not have gone through in her life. Atticus pointed out that the teacher obviously did not know to not offer money to