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Real Life Quotes In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Real Life Quote Have you ever wondered what it was like to live next a person who people believed to be scary and could kill you? Well, in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout, the narrator, does. The book is based on her brother Jem breaking his elbow and how it happened told in a long flashback series. From reading the book a person could tell that Lee is a very considerant person, pertaining to this quote, “You never really understand a person until you consider his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Lee 39) ` This quote basically means that you’ll never know what the person is like or what their life is like unless you were them. I feel she is telling us in this quote to put others into

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