Lessons Learned From Boo Radley
By Staff Editor | Jan. 18, 2001In a scene from Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," Atticus Finch explains to his daughter, Scout, a simple trick about getting along with other people. He says to her, "If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view --""Sir?""- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."That simple trick Atticus is talking about is empathy, the plain ability to imagine oneself in the place of another.
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