To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” said Atticus Finch from the book To Kill a Mockingbird. I agree a lot with this quote because what it is saying is that you shouldn’t judge someone about how they look, you should get to know them. In this book, all they do is judge people by their color and that’s why Tom Robinson gets sent to jail because no one got to know him for who he is and they assumed he was guilty because of his skin color. This would not happen in our society today. One reason our society would act differently if Tom Robinson’s trial were happening now instead of back then is because today in our society we aren’t as

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