“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
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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
BY CORINTHIA RIVERA "Judged not by their color but by their skin but by their character." -Dr. Martin Luther King. Ray Lewis Ouote "It has nothing to do with talent and everything to do with effort!
As human being were constantly judged by our appearance and by our actions. Sometimes the way were judged may cause people to get the wrong idea of us. Being constantly judged was a common thing in the city of Maycomb back in the 1930’s, where almost every white person was racist or discriminated the blacks. Tom Robinson was a victim to discrimination and later on lost his life for a crime he hadn’t committed. When people are perceived this way it has the ability to change people’s lives forever.
Being judgemental is a major problem in our society. You can be judged by your looks, how much money you have, your choices, and race. In the book of How to kill a Mockingbird there is a lot of judging going on. The judging going on in the book is not as bad as it is today in our society. There are many judgemental issues that go on in the book that compare to our society.
Do you ever wonder how this world generates? Because I do. I also wonder how everyone is being treated. Are everyone getting treated equally no matter on their race, gender or religion? That’s what I think that matters the most in this world.
Bob Marley once said, “Who are you to judge the life I live? I am not perfect and I don’t have to be! Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.” He states that many people judge others but they don’t realize they’re not perfect themselves. This quote directly applies to one of the recurring themes in this story.
Acts of kindness and treating others properly in general are examples of everyday behavior. These characteristics connect with the concept of The Golden Rule, which is to treat others how you would want to be treated. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays, and Associated Press’ Amid the Las Vegas shooting chaos, many unwitting heroes emerged, The Golden Rule is clearly exhibited. Many characters follow The Golden Rule throughout the entirety of Harper Lee’s
We live in a society today where judging others is a regular, everyday activity. Many people may blame a significant amount of this issue on the excessive amount of technology we have access too, but this problem has been around for much longer. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, it shows the ugliness that can come from judging others, but it also teaches two young children, Scout and Jem, to listen to others, so that you can have the opportunity to learn from them. Throughout the story many characters were able to demonstrate this lesson for the kids, but three that were true examples of it were Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch and Boo Radley. With only aiming to stand up for what they believe in and not worrying what everyone
Our whole lives growing up we are told to follow the “Golden Rule”. This rule is defined as to treat someone the way you want to be treated. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch a lawyer in a town called Maycomb in Alabama tries his best to be a role model for his two children. In the quiet town of Maycomb Atticus is given the job to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. Atticus wants to teach his kids Jem and Scout life lessons at an early age so they grow up as respectable people.
Dill, unlike the people of Maycomb in the courthouse, realizes the cruelty and unfair treatment toward Tom Robinson. Dill says “I don’t care one speck. 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.” (Pg 226).
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses characterization, symbolism, and irony to express the cloud in judgment prejudice causes when examining the morals of others. Scout is able to understand more about the town folk in Maycomb County through studying her teacher’s ironic and corrupted views of life around her. Lee uses Miss Gates, Scout’s teacher, to allow Scout a chance to understand the complexity of the adult world. While teaching the class about the Holocaust, Gates expresses the injustice being done to the Jews. She teaches the children that the town does not “believe in persecuting anybody” (Lee 329) because of the U.S. democratic government.
Rumors. Actions. Looks. All of these are reasons why we judge one being, to think that only three factors decide how others view you. You don’t just see this type of judging in reality but in To Kill a MockingBird.
We shouldn't judge people for their appearance, instead we judge them in their way of being, behavior, and how they treat others. Prejudice is the case in To Kill A Mockingbird, In this novel Scout understand for who Boo radley really is and Tom robinson and Boo Radley being judged. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses character and plot to reveal the theme that we shouldn't judge people for their appearance. Harper lee uses the character Scout and Boo Radley to reveal the theme that we shouldn't judge people by the rumors you might hear about them because they might not be true.
“A court is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family, in the name of God, do your duty” (Lee, Chapter 20). Jury selections were previously one-sided situations that were later proven unethical. Racism was common during the 1930s and was often evident in jury selection. The outcomes of trials during those times were were often determined based upon the victim’s testimony.
Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, presents the idea that being non judgemental is demonstrated by not judging someone on one specific thing about someone even when others might judge them. Social justice requires one being non judgemental because everyone deserves being equal. The character Atticus Finch demonstrates being non judgemental by not judging people by their race, gender, and whether their an outcast or not. Atticus, a non judgemental person, because he does not not show any less respect to anyone for what color skin they have. The court appointed him to defend Tom, but, “Atticus also aims to defend him.”(163)
The To Kill a Mockingbird novel is about Scout Finch and Jem and their tribulations through life in Alabama. They learn that the world is hard and that there is judgement towards people just because of how they look. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks” (Chapter 23) During the summer when Scout was six