learns compassion from
her father when she observes his treatment of Mrs. Dubose, a woman who was only too willing to
call him names and judge him. Despite her abusingto his own children, of all people, Atticus
still feels compassion for her, keeping in mind her addiction and how it might have altered her
and makes her deserving of sympathy and kindness, even when she does not offer sympathy or
kindness to others often. Simply the fact that she is another person in the world seems to
compel him to offer her kindness. One of his most famous statements supports this idea. He
says,
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.
Atticus seems to employ this philosophy, which
basically amounts to not to judging others because one can never understand what another person
is going through, with a great...
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