Looking Through Your Heart

Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said in The Little Prince, “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly”. To me, this quote means that someone can only see another person for who they really are by looking through their own heart. This quote is true because the way you see someone isn’t how they always are. When you look and judge someone through your heart, you clear your opinion of all your biases, preconceived notions, and beliefs about them. In the novels, To Kill A Mockingbird and A Lesson Before Dying, where the main characters see people for who they really are even though others characters always don’t. Atticus Finch and Grant Wiggins are genuine and loving characters who see people for who they really are by looking through their heart to find the goodness in others. Atticus Finch, in To Kill A Mockingbird, was one of the characters who didn’t buy into the rumors about Boo Radley but instead, looked through his heart to see who Boo really was. The author uses literary elements to show and exaggerate his point of how other characters thought of Boo. For example he uses characterization to show how Jem thinks of Boo in the quote, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained” (Lee 13). This is an
Grant learned to throughout the novel to see Jefferson for who he was, and Atticus knew all along that Boo was a good person because he judged him through his heart instead of listening to others. They did this because it’s the way everyone should look at each other. Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said in The Little Prince, “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly”. Antoine said this in hopes to show people not to judge on what others say, but to let your heart decide what is right and