To Kill a Mockingbird Journal One Chapters 1-10 Essays

To Kill a Mockingbird Journal One: Chapters 1-10 By: Saima Vedachhia Atticus Finch gave his daughter an amazing piece of advice about how a person can't understand another person's perspective "until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"( Page 39) . Th ese sentences from the book, Atticus does truly give an judgement on how to better understand people and their own perspective . However, its the way the neighbourhood treats "Boo" or Arthur Radley proves that either Atticus is a hypocrite or he unconcern about Arthur Radley. Atticus tells Scout this when she complains to him about her teacher, Miss. Caroline, but when I first read the sentence, my first thought was about Arthur Radley and the oversight he faces in his neighbourhood. Nobody ever decided to look from his point of view and at the emotions he fe lt . The entire community went on with their lives either than acknowledging the fact , a man w ho hasn't come out in years. Nobody in community took courage and ask ed Arthur if he was ever okay? Everyone knew that Mr. Radley, Arthur's father, was an extreme Baptist and hated the idea of getting even the slightest happiness in this world. They also knew that he was a horrible person because when he died , Calpurnia said "There goes the meanest man ever God ever blew breath into" Although with th e fact Arthur was living in a home with someone as insane as Mr. Radley, they still didn't care about Arthur. After Mr. Radley's death, Arthur's old er brother Nathan came home and took his father position to take "care" of Arthur. Arthur's older brother Nathan was no better then his father. So how come in th is situation the person is different nobody in the neighbourhood still didn't take to tell Nathan that he wasn't treating his brother right? He isn't being a good guardian. There are rumours of Arthur being chained to a bed, who would ever do this to a person? Arthur once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors which made the children in the neighbourhood afraid of this 33-year-old man. Regardless of whether all statement are true or not, it is quite obvious that Arthur's mental health is not stable. As a young child, Ms. Maudie describes him to be a generous and same person , but when time flew by, he was not seen outside of his house and was thought to be this crazy lunatic. In such a case, it could be assumed that Arthur was mentally, emotionally or physically abused by his family, in my opinion it was entirely true which is no amazement because it was believed that even Mrs. Radley has lost her hair, most of her teeth and one of her finger after marrying Mr. Radley. If anybody could understand Arthur's point of view it would have to be Atticus because he is a lawyer and should clearly identify evidence of abuse. nevertheless , he decides to mind his own business just like the other in the neighbourhood. I feel like that Arthur has been forgotten by his neighbours and community. They all have major part of making him seem like a monster but not knowing what actually happened . Arthur is just a person who has been through a lot and is in extremely need of support, which the people in Maycomb do not give. The three kids, Scout, Jem and Dill were the only ones that wanted to try to make a change in Maycomb. They tried to give Arthur a note to come out and get help, but Atticus stopped them and told them not to bother him. How do they not realize that leaving Arthur alone through such a difficult time, is just tormenting him even more? The braveness of these children shows th e humanity they have in them because the rest of the community do not even have the slightest sense of civilization if they do not help Arthur soon. Arthur is an example and represent many of us and how some of us get ignored because of the discrimination that exist today. Just