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To Kill A Mockingbird Blind Spot
A blind spot is when people don't understand what someone else is thinking and act without realizing what the other person is going through. In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” Atticus, the dad of the main characters, explains that “You never really understand a person until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” While it may be true that someone may have a hard time seeing life from your point of view, imagining life from their shoes is the best way to understand what their seeing.

Certainly there are situations where looking at a situation from the opposing side's point of view isn't always the best solution to the problem. A good example of this is when trump dropped bombs on syria not to long ago. The US government did not

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