Examples Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird '

Is Empathy the Answer to Racism and Prejudice

Do you now someone who never judged someone because they look weird, dress weird, etc. That is what empathy is. It is the ability to “walk two moons in another man's moccasins”. In other words it means not judge someone before you walk in there shoes and see life from their perspective. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” the author repeatedly shows examples of this. When Scout, Jem, and Dill are scared of Boo Radley it isn’t until Jem walks in Boo’s shoes that he understands all the hurt he feels. That's an example in the book of prejudice. An example of racism is the trial of Tom Robinson. Atticus is defending him because he is African-American. Atticus says to Scout she wouldn’t have to mind (listen)

him if he didn’t take the case because he wouldn’t feel like he’d done something to help Tom. This and other evidence shows that in part I, the author is showing how empathy is the answer to racism and prejudice.

Walking in another man’s shoes is one version of empathy that could end racism and prejudice.

Seeing something from a different perspective really helps you gather evidence about an event or a case. That's why the judge of a case always like as many witnesses as possible. They like to see the facts and the lies. In school teachers may have you write about an event from a perspective of someone else's point of view. This is so that an event in the past that may have been bad, you could be writing it from a perspective of someone who thought it was a good event. If you walk in another man’s shoes, you could see things you thought were right were actually wrong or vise

versa.

Another step to take against racism and prejudice is by caring for these people subjected to racism and prejudice. Walking in another man's shoes is just seeing things from their perspectives, but if you don’t care for them it changes nothing. That’s just the first step. Caring for them is showing other people and them that they mean something in the world even if no one else see’s that. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” Jem see’s how much abuse Boo fells by walking in his shoe’s, then we now he cares about him because he cries about him. If he did walk in his shoes, and didn’t care about Boo he wouldn’t be crying. When Jem shows signs maturing, he starts to connect with people, like Boo, who are subjected to abuse. He also shows signs of connection to Ms. Dubose who goes through abuse of her disease and when she withdrawals.

The final step to end racism and prejudice is to take action or defend these people.

Caring for them is good, but if you don’t work, like Atticus, to defend these people from whatever false charge or biased law that is set over these people. This is referring to the book, but let's talk about this problem in modern terms. In Chicago there are lots of cops killing African-American people. This is the most recent form of racism in America. These cops have to make life-death decisions in a blink of an eye. They can’t show empathy just in case these people are actually dangerous, but the people caucasian and African-Americans show empathy toward the innocent people killed by cops wrong move. They share hope to the families of innocent people killed. But this isn’t the cops fault. The racism and prejudice starting when slavery happened in America. Some people for ages have egged racism and prejudice and they are the problem to these awful

killings.

In conclusion, empathy is the problem to racism and prejudice. To end these problems first walk in the man's shoes who is subjected to racism and/or prejudice. Then, show them you care for them and that you think they are worth something. Finally, defend them from the people that don’t show empathy. This and much more evidence has shown the empathy is the answer to racism and prejudice.