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What Is The Theme Of Walking In People's Shoes

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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. So far the book is about two siblings, Jem and Scout, who have many fun times together amidst the hard times. When their father, Atticus, a lawyer, takes a case defending a black man named Tom Robinson, the family lives under scrutiny from their hometown, Maycomb. Along the way, they learn a lot about other people and their perspectives in life. In this journal I will be evaluating the theme of walking in people’s shoes. In the book, the theme is a person does not really know or understand someone until he or she walks in his or her shoes. Scout learns this through encounters with several people, one of them being her schoolteacher, Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline was new to Maycomb, and didn’t understand that people in that city were held to different social statuses. …show more content…

They have no morals, and no cleanliness. They are not forced to go to school, and they only do so for the first day. The first day of school came, and one of the Ewell children went and was extremely disrespectful to the teacher, because she had told him to go home and clean himself up. She did not understand that this family was different than others, and that the town did not hold them to high standards. They were not forced to listen and assent to their rules unless they so chose to. Also, Miss Caroline had come across a new way to teach students how to read, but because Scout had already learned how to read with Atticus, she would have to start over and learn what she already knew. She would also miss her one-on-one time with her father, which was a special time to her. When she talked to Atticus about it, he told her that she could still read with him, and that Miss Caroline was still trying to learn Maycomb’s ways. She needed to look at the world through her teacher’s eyes to completely understand how she was

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