Point Of View In To Kill A Mockingbird

Have you ever wondered why people see things differently from other or why they think the way they do? Harper Lee, the author of to Kill a Mocking Bird, once said, “you will never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside his his skin and walk around in it.” I believe what Lee had said is entirely true. People won’t ever fully understand what someone is going through without actually being them. Seeing through other people perspective gives us some understanding of a certain situation and helps us realize all parts of the story. When you change the way you look at thing the things you look at change.

Seeing things in other people perspective is crucial to keep a serene relationship between people. For instance, failure to consider another person’s point of view is one of the main causes of prejudice in the world. Prejudiced people judge preconceive opinions that are not based on reason or actual experience. For example, a prejudiced person might look at a homeless person with disdain and say, “Get a job or get lost!” From the prejudiced persons point of view, the homeless person is unwilling to work, lazy, and

perfectly capable of working to better his situation. A more compassionate person might instead offer to help the homeless person or direct him to an agency that could help. I have heard many stories of homeless people’s lives changing simply by someone willing to help then by guiding them into bettering their situation. The unprejudiced person would know that there are countless possible reasons such as mental illness, or family tragedy, loss of employment or home, that may have led to this inauspicious person’s condition. Before 1870 African Americans were considered inferior to white people and to some people they still are. If African Americans were not given equal rights we wouldn’t have been able to consider their ideas and many things would have existed today like blood banks or gas masks that are critical in helping people today. Bias thoughts comes from ignorance and an inability to see things from another’s perspective. Compassion, on the other hand, comes from trying to understand another person’s feelings and experience.
In the book, 13 reasons why by Jay Asher, Clay Jensen is forced to see through his classmate and crush, Hannah Bakers, Perspective when he returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch.

Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, who had committed suicide two weeks earlier. On the tape Hannah discusses the 13 reasons why she committed suicide him being one of them. Clay Jenson goes around town listening to Hannah and her thoughts about how she saw life. In the end he learns that a lot of people hide in their own skin and face challenges most people can’t see. In the end his view changed and it is showed by him going to a girl in the back of the bus who used to be popular but suddenly changed, showing he notices her change like

Hannah.