To Kill A Mockingbird Change Of Perspective
A Divergent View Similar to walking around in someone else’s shoes, this is what changes Jem and Scout’s viewpoint of understanding. In this simile, Atticus tries to teach an important lesson about truly accepting one’s situation to alter Jem and Scout’s outlook with people. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird reveals that a change of perspective can lead to a different way of understanding through a similar metaphor, idiom, and the plot twist of finding out that Boo Radley is not akin to Jem’s absurd descriptions. There are multiple themes in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, but one specifically shows metaphorically that viewing a person from a different angle can reveal new information. For example, Atticus Finch, the father of Jem and
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A plot twist towards the end truly shifts Scout’s understanding of Boo Radley. Though before the plot twist, Scout already was beginning to realize Boo’s situation differently, thinking that “What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from the attentions of inquisitive children” (Lee 65). Scout put herself in Boo Radley’s shoes and came up with many reasons why Boo would want to stay hidden away in his house, showing that she had figured out a new way to appreciate him aside from her curiosities and fears of him. The more she did this, the more she began to feel sympathy and “remorse” for Boo Radley (Lee 324). Upon further thought, Scout had realized how terrible it was of her and Jem to take “part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur [Boo] Radley” (Lee 324). Before this realization, Scout had thought it was okay to pry at Boo Radley to manage to catch a glimpse of him or to find out more about him. Now with this different perception of her actions, she knows it was wrong of her and Jem to do such actions to Boo Radley. Boo Radley ends up saving Jem and Scout’s lives later on, and he is not terrifying as Jem once said he was, totally changing Scout’s perspective
A plot twist towards the end truly shifts Scout’s understanding of Boo Radley. Though before the plot twist, Scout already was beginning to realize Boo’s situation differently, thinking that “What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from the attentions of inquisitive children” (Lee 65). Scout put herself in Boo Radley’s shoes and came up with many reasons why Boo would want to stay hidden away in his house, showing that she had figured out a new way to appreciate him aside from her curiosities and fears of him. The more she did this, the more she began to feel sympathy and “remorse” for Boo Radley (Lee 324). Upon further thought, Scout had realized how terrible it was of her and Jem to take “part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur [Boo] Radley” (Lee 324). Before this realization, Scout had thought it was okay to pry at Boo Radley to manage to catch a glimpse of him or to find out more about him. Now with this different perception of her actions, she knows it was wrong of her and Jem to do such actions to Boo Radley. Boo Radley ends up saving Jem and Scout’s lives later on, and he is not terrifying as Jem once said he was, totally changing Scout’s perspective