“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his

point-of-view -until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,” these are the words

spoken by Atticus Finch when giving advice to his little girl, Jean Louise, “Scout.” This

theme, “do not judge a person before you get to know them,” is something most children,

during this day and age, are taught when they are very young, and is the reoccurring

theme in To Kill A Mocking Bird. The two clear examples of this theme are with Arthur

“Boo” Radley and Tom Robinson. When the characters are first met, they are introduced

as bad and maybe even evil people. However, when the characters start to develop, it can

be noticed that they are actually good people.

In To Kill A Mocking Bird, from the time Arthur “Boo” Radley was a small boy

until the time he was a grown adult he was a very misunderstood character. When the

children of Maycomb, like Jem and Scout, were young, people would tell horror stories

about Boo. One of them was when Boo allegedly stabbed his father with scissors, but

throughout the book, it was foreshadowed that Boo

“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” These are the

and actually can make one theme. In both Tom Robinson’s and Boo Radley’s cases it was

that definitely made him a good person was he saved Jem’s and Scout’s lives from a crazy

sewed them up and folded them for when Jem came back to claim them. Then, when Miss

Robinson was “judged” before anyone knew anything about him. If the jurors would of

words spoken by Jean Loise Finch about turning in Boo Radley for Bob Ewell’s killing.

their moccasins.” In both books, this is the reoccurring theme. In Walk Two Moons a

girl judges her neighbor before she even gets to know her. In To Kill A Mockingbird,

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