Examples Of Judging In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“Treat others like you would want to be treated.”That’s the Golden Rule. If everyone followed it, and tried to understand others instead of judging them, life would be more positive. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird shows the negativity judging others causes, but more importantly, shows that when people decide to put their judgements aside about others, and try to see their point of view, life becomes better. People’s point of views should be looked at before judging.
A person can’t judge another without taking in the circumstances of the other’s life. People can’t judge others if they don’t understand them and, “‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk …show more content…

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Dill is horrified by the way Mr. Gilmer was talking to Tom Robinson during the trial, “‘It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that—it just makes me sick,’” (Lee 203). Dill understands that Tom is a human just like himself and Mr. Gilmer, and is sickened that Tom is being spoken to not like an equal, but being talked down upon. Mr. Gilmer is not trying to see Tom’s point of view, he is just assuming that he is guilty because he is black, which is unfair treatment. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Calpurnia says that even if you are better than someone, treating them like you are basically cancels it out, “‘Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em,’” (Lee 25). Acting better than somebody doesn’t make it true. It makes one worse than them for treating them like they’re unimportant. So should try to see the point of view of everyone, and realize all humans should be treated

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