Question

Relate an experience of unfair treatment from something you have learned about from the media or in a book. Your response should be about 150 words.

Answer 1

Answer:

In To Kill a Mockingbird, there was a moment when Jem cordially invited Walter Cunningham to his house to eat dinner after Jem's sister, Scout, rudely informs Miss Caroline on Walter's financial status and how he was in severe poverty to exchange money. According to page 25 it quotes, "'There's some folks who don't eat like us,' she whispered fiercely, 'but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth, you let him, you hear?'" After Scout taunts Walter for pouring syrup on his vegetables, Calpurnia becomes furious, stating that there are some children who dwell through different lifestyles that Scout may be aberrant to. According to page 30 it quotes, "'You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you crawl into his skin and walk around it."' Atticus, Scout's father, teaches her a lesson that she shouldn't judge another's motives or actions because they probably have a differing perception on what they prefer liking or doing. Scout shouldn't despise Walter just because he may be poor or may have uncommon interests, because he may see it in a contrasting perspective.