The quote in full
says
The
message is quite simple: You have to be in someone's shoes in order to clearly appreciate what
they are going through. One cannot assume that people are supposed to act in one way or another,
or make this or that decision only because it is what we would have
done.
Atticus is trying to explain to Scout that life is not about
expectations but about understandings. People can change in front of our very eyes, or end up
being someone we never saw coming. Yet, it is a fact of life, and it is what it is. Therefore, it
is better to just try and consider the circumstances surrounding a person to clearly judge the
character of the individual and, more than anything, accept the
differences.
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