To Kill A Mockingbird: Putting Oneself In Another Person's Shoes

Putting Oneself In Another Person’s Shoes

We often here the phrase “What would one do if they were put in someone else’s shoes?” Well… what would someone do is the real question. When people get asked this question, they usually don’t actually put themselves in the other persons position to think about all of the pressure and affects of the situation. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many different occasions when people make decisions that someone may question. But in reality, one may never know the reasoning behind the decisions made, until they put themselves in the others place. The novel takes place in Macomb, Alabama during the Jim Crow law era. Anyone indigenous to this area knew how the blacks were treated, and nothing really changed. The story is based around the Finch family, Atticus and his children. Atticus takes a trial case of a black man accused of rape. This situation is not ideal for anyone, or one’s family in the south
Arthur “Boo” Radley is the talk of Macomb county. It was said that he stabbed his dad with scissors when he was a little boy. No one in the town has actually seen Boo, they don’t even know if he is alive! Boo chooses to stay in his house all of the time, partially because he is scared and partially because of humiliation. Although staying in his house can make people talk more, people would probably be saying the same things if he was out and about on the streets. Towards the end of the novel, Scout starts to put herself in Boo’s shoes after Atticus talks to her and explains the situation. She starts to think about why he has stayed in his house for so long and why he has not wanted to be in the public eye. Scout also starts to show a new benevolence towards Boo Radley. What the reader has to take into consideration is, what would they do if they were Boo? How would they react to all of these