To Kill A Mockingbird Empathy Quotes

Empathy is the feeling someone sorrow or able to imagine being them. People shouldn’t judge someone without walking in their shoes. People shouldn’t judge people because you never know what there going threw at that moment and time. Empathy is developed by understanding someone struggle just how in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” I can feel empathy for mayella Ewell and Boo Radley because we went through similar experiences.

Mayella Ewell never knew what love was or what it was to have friends. This can be showed in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” when “ apparently Mayella recital has given her confidence, but it was not her father’s brash kind: there was something like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail”(Lee 243). This quote shows that she is afraid of her dad because she knew that she will get hurt if she doesn’t lie. I can relate with to her because I grew up in a house with alcoholic parent and always scared to say anything because I didn’t know if they would snap and hurt me. Also, the fact that she didn’t even know what friend were and this can be shown in the text when " it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world..."(Lee 256). I can also relate to this because I didn’t have any friend until I was 13 so I know the sorrow she felt and the embarrassment

This can be shown in the text "To Kill A Mockingbird" when “Boo was about six-and-a half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels..."(Lee 16). I can relate to boo radley being judged off by people saying rumor because all threw elementary and middle school people would judge me off by what people said about me. Boo couldn’t say anything to say that those rumor were wrong because he was probably scared of the Maycomb citizens also I can relate to this because when I was being bullied, i didn’t want to go to school because I was to scared to