In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Finches discover important themes through the lives and events of the people in Maycomb. To Kill a Mockingbird centers around Scout Finch, who is a young girl living in the 1930s during the Great Depression. In the story, Scout is upset because of the ignorance that her teacher showed because of the short time she lived in Maycomb. Her dad, Atticus, told Scout to put herself in the teacher’s shoes so she could better understand the teacher. This major theme, which is revisited throughout the novel, is empathy. Empathy, as described by Atticus Finch in the book, is, “You never really understand a person until you consider it from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in
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The first example of empathy I mentioned was the charitable act of a Mandeville priest. Rev. Tran saw that his friend was in pain and needed something that is very precious to a human being, a left kidney. His fellow priest would never ask him for a favor that great, but Rev. Tran was happy to do it. Through the entire process of tests and even the surgery, he was always very chipper and excited to help his friend. After the surgery, he felt so weak and he could barely get out of bed for three weeks. This feeling of weakness caused him to feel empathy for those who are sick or bedridden. My personal example of empathy is much smaller than this one; nonetheless, it is still empathy. In November my brother told me and my family that he was going to move to California. Since I am very close to my siblings, this made me very mad because I did not want him to leave. I could not seem to figure out why he was being so selfish in leaving me and my family. It took me putting myself in shoes to realize, that he just wanted to experience new places. I learned that if I were him, I would do the same thing, and I would want the support of my family. Although To Kill a Mockingbird is fiction, important themes in the book, such as empathy, are very real and are still experienced in our modern
The first example of empathy I mentioned was the charitable act of a Mandeville priest. Rev. Tran saw that his friend was in pain and needed something that is very precious to a human being, a left kidney. His fellow priest would never ask him for a favor that great, but Rev. Tran was happy to do it. Through the entire process of tests and even the surgery, he was always very chipper and excited to help his friend. After the surgery, he felt so weak and he could barely get out of bed for three weeks. This feeling of weakness caused him to feel empathy for those who are sick or bedridden. My personal example of empathy is much smaller than this one; nonetheless, it is still empathy. In November my brother told me and my family that he was going to move to California. Since I am very close to my siblings, this made me very mad because I did not want him to leave. I could not seem to figure out why he was being so selfish in leaving me and my family. It took me putting myself in shoes to realize, that he just wanted to experience new places. I learned that if I were him, I would do the same thing, and I would want the support of my family. Although To Kill a Mockingbird is fiction, important themes in the book, such as empathy, are very real and are still experienced in our modern