Question

[Kassyreadsalot]

Atticus tells the children several times that they need to walk in someone eles's shoes before judging the person.Describe times when Atticus, scout, or jem walk in someone eles's shoes.What role does this advice play in sympathy and compassion?

[Kressel]

What is this? Your homework assignment?

[MizziQ]

Give her a break. I don't know the answers to your questions--sorry. :(

[Samantha]

When Atticus is sat outside the jail house waiting, the man inside is being convicted because of his colour. For atticus he knows that because of his belief in the man (i cant remember his name)his friends will turn on him.

When the children visit the church with the house keeper and are taken into the courthouse with their coloured friends.

Any help?

[Will]

Asking people to answer your homework questions for you will do you no good. You need to learn to think critically for yourself and apply your own knowledge.

[Aerial]

at the end of the book when scout is on boos porch she understands what atticus is talking about when he says that stuff about being in someones skin. just read the last page. you should get the answer youre looking for. you can relate that to the other things in the book(that is if you read it)

[Karl]

It's all in the novel, not just the ending.

Harper Lee is not just alluding to RACE here. Boo Radley could represent anyone who has ever been alienated in life because they are different, or seem to be different, and don't fit neatly into a given society.

And in Boo Radley's case, he is an unknown and therefor not understood at all. This ties in with the bigger picture of the entire novel, because most people in the south in those days hated and persecuted "Coloured folk" because that was the culture and time that they lived in.

I'd even argue that most of them could not be blamed for their behaviour and opinions, because they didn't know any better.
It's human error to judge people based on little or no experience.

[Ricki]

Early in the novel, the children make sport of Boo. As the novel evolves, so do the children. Witnessing Tom Robinson's trial is a major turning point for Scout and Jem - they lose some of their innocence when they witness injustice. It is this loss that allows them to see Boo in a more compassionate light. TKAM is a coming of age story, as revealed by her making the connection between Boo and a Mocking Bird.

[Michelle]

I don't know. I just read this book and I'm only 14. But it seems to me that "Boo Radley" is really more of an idea of a man. Boo Radley is the embellished idea of a real man, Arthur Radley, who is never seen and is therefore succeptable to embellishment and exaggeration. Boo Radley is ten feet tall, eats cats and squirrels, comes out at night, peeps in ladies windows, and stabs people with scissors. Meanwhile Arthur Radley is around six feet tall, pale, shy, quietly awkward, yet truly kind at heart. I just wanted to say this somewhere, to someone, and get some feedback. I can't bring it up in class because no one else has finished the book yet and I don't want to ruin the ending for them (like it was for me).

[Ricki]

Boo’s being 10 feet tall, eating squirrels and cats, and peeping in windows is just gossip started by small-town rumormongers. The description was never meant to be taken literally.

[Michelle]

Obviously there is no real person is this book that has those characteristics. But "Boo Radley" is a made-up idea of the person who lives in the Radley house. Boo Radley is who the kids are obsessed with in the beginning of the book. Arthur Radley is not as fascinating as Boo Radley. He's just a quiet, almost agoraphobic man who lives down the street. My point is that Boo Radley is almost a Seperate character from Arthur Radley despite both technically being the same guy. But, hey, maybe I'm jusy stupid, young, and naive.

[Tanvi]

Boo is not a real person but an entity. (But Arthur surely is.) As somebody said in the beginning, he is the symbol of somebody ostracized by the society. Every nation all around the world, (be it developing or developed) has and has had discrimination in different forms. Basically, its human nature to not easily accept someone who is 'different'.