When asked to "walk in the other person's shoes" this means that you should try to imagine yourself in his situation. This is called empathy. This is different from sympathy since sympathy just allows you to feel sorry for the other person. On the other hand, empathy is feeling the person's emotions as if you are the one going through his problems.
He does not acknowledge Jane, but she watches him unnoticed and considers her reasons for loving him.
They were important due to the fact that if not for the two John Brown wouldn’t have spoke his thoughts, and he would have never taken the memory from when he was a child and saw the little slave girl hit by a shovel, he wouldn’t have gone public as his father did, it caused a movement that ended slavery, it was important for the United States moving forward to earning freedom.
