Shattering Indiscreet Demotion and Deviance You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of views you climb into his skin and walk around in it Lee 30 In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee the main character Scout grew up in Maycomb Alabama during the 1930 s The story is told by Scout an adult and telling her childhood stories The story is about a single father teaching his children a six years old girl Scout and ten years old Jem to be empathizing and respect everyone In To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee creates a novel to show the world needs more empathy through the characters point of views and dialogue First Haper Lee use Character to inform us that the citizen needs more sympathetic for each other One day while Scout are in school her classmate Cecil Jacobs taunt her because her father is defending Tom Robinson When Scout got home from school she asked Atticus why he would defend a n Atticus said If I didn t I couldn t hold up my head in town I couldn t represent this country in the legislature I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again 49 This show that