The Doors of Perception

9/25/2019

Daily Literary Quote
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
-Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

Journal Prompt
Explain the quote above. Discuss a time when you heard multiple versions of the same event that contradicted one another (or someone else's recollection of an event was different than your own). Why did they differ? How do we determine "truth" in such occasions?

55 Comments

Troy

9/25/2019 10:39:37 am

Everyone has a different point of view for everything and what they say may not be a lie but also may not be the truth

Wylie

9/25/2019 10:40:54 am

I agree with this

Dakota

9/25/2019 10:41:23 am

I agree that everyone has a different point of view of things.

Cole

9/25/2019 10:41:35 am

I agree a lot with this

Caleb C

9/25/2019 10:46:53 am

I agree it is very hard to tell who is right and who is wrong in those cases

Dylan

9/25/2019 10:39:58 am

The quote is saying that you should not judge a person until you understand them and how they view things. A similar phrase is “put yourself in there shoes”. These quotes are basically the same because they are implying the same thing.

Cody

9/25/2019 10:43:24 am

I agree with this comment

Tamryn

9/25/2019 10:44:22 am

I agree with you Dylan

Cole

9/25/2019 10:40:11 am

A fishing story changes every time it is told. They differ because they always get blown out of proportion between people. The story’s that are told is never the truth.

Wylie

9/25/2019 10:41:18 am

I like that

Troy

9/25/2019 10:41:34 am

And you and you have to lie because you suck at fishing

Owen

9/25/2019 10:41:45 am

That is very true.

Cody

9/25/2019 10:43:56 am

Makes sense

Loon

9/25/2019 10:44:27 am

That always happens

Tamryn

9/25/2019 10:45:45 am

I really like that saying Cole, good job.

Owen

9/25/2019 10:40:17 am

The quote is sayin that there is always another side to a story. When you and your siblings are in a fight and my dad stops it and there are three different stories of who started it. They were different because nobody wanted to get in trouble. We all just walked away and didn’t talk for a while.

Riley

9/25/2019 10:41:51 am

Is this a point of view thing or more of lying because they don’t want to get in trouble.

Caleb C

9/25/2019 10:49:18 am

That’s a great example we all tell stories in different ways. And we all see things in different ways

Wylie

9/25/2019 10:40:33 am

You don’t understand what people are going through and you can’t really say much about them Unless you’ve been through the same stuff.

Troy

9/25/2019 10:41:02 am

I thought the same

Brayden

9/25/2019 10:45:59 am

I have the same point of view

Dakota

9/25/2019 10:40:38 am

The quote means that you don’t know how they’ve been taught or what they have gone through. One thing I’ve heard is at a football game that the team did so well against the opponent. But when I talk to the players they say that they played super bad. These are different because people always have different opinions about things.you can’t really figure out the “truth” because everyone thinks they’re right even if they have different observations.

Dylan

9/25/2019 10:42:14 am

I like how you uses an example from football.

Owen

9/25/2019 10:42:14 am

I agree strongly.

Riley

9/25/2019 10:41:08 am

It means understanding someone else’s opinions and decisions is hard if you haven’t seen it from how they do. I can’t think of one but I know it’s just because people see it in different ways and they might not have had all the same information. To determine truth you try to piece together the most concrete evidence and form a full story.

Brooke

9/25/2019 10:42:56 am

I couldn’t really think of something with multiple story’s.

Dylan

9/25/2019 10:43:34 am

I agree I see truth as a puzzle that you are trying to solve.

Loon

9/25/2019 10:44:05 am

Very true

Destiny

9/25/2019 10:45:02 am

I agree 100%

Loon

9/25/2019 10:41:13 am

Some people exaggerate or even change the story for the good of themselves this makes it difficult to find the truth. To the fund the truth in some cases you either have to be a witness or you can’t get the whole truth.

Taelyn

9/25/2019 10:42:19 am

I agree with this.

Riley

9/25/2019 10:42:27 am

I agree that it is nearly impossible to get a whole truth.

Cole

9/25/2019 10:43:10 am

Yes I think the same

Cody

9/25/2019 10:41:23 am

When a fight happens some people have different sides to the story about why it happened. One person could think they were talking about the other but then the other could of been talking about something else

Taelyn

9/25/2019 10:42:38 am

This is very true.

Dakota

9/25/2019 10:43:15 am

I agree some people think one person won and others think the other won.

Brooke

9/25/2019 10:43:49 am

That is very true about fights.

Brooke

9/25/2019 10:41:28 am

It means that you will never understand someone until you walk in their shoes. When things happen at school their area lot of different story’s from just one event. Perspective is reality and everyone has a different perspective on life. The only way to determine the truth is to get everyone together and have mutual understand on what really happened.

Destiny

9/25/2019 10:43:29 am

That’s every true and the mature thing to do when it comes to fixing the problem.

Jacob

9/25/2019 10:48:00 am

That is very true and I agree with what you said.

Taelyn

9/25/2019 10:41:40 am

When two people argued over a homework assignment because there was a misunderstanding. Someone usually comes forward as wrongly

Kelton

9/30/2019 10:45:33 am

I agree with this everyone has a different input.

Destiny

9/25/2019 10:41:57 am

”. You don’t know what that person is going through in their personal life. One time I was accused for doing something that I didn’t do and there was a few people believed me but the group that didn’t believe me was larger. When it comes to something where it’s their words against yours then people tend to believe the person who is more extreme about the situation and don’t ask the other person involved.

Tamryn

9/25/2019 10:43:42 am

What the quote above is trying to portray, is that you don’t know what someone else is going through until you are them. Being in high school I have heard and have been apart of many stories that twist and turn between people. A lot of them I probably can’t say on here if I’m being honest. Determining truth in these situations is very easy most the time. Don’t tell anyone else and ask the person it’s about what the real story is.

Jacob

9/25/2019 10:46:59 am

I like how your relate it to high school.

Kelton

9/30/2019 10:44:34 am

I like how you worded everything.

Kaleb

9/25/2019 10:45:26 am

You can say you understand people’s point of view unless you have been tin there shoes and been treated the same as them. Parents both say they love the kid more but only one parents can have them.

Jacob

9/25/2019 10:45:32 am

I believe that the quote means that you should not judge a person by what you hear about them or what they only say but judge them by who they actually are and until you see them as themselves. I can not think of any situation that this applies. You can only determine truth if you are to be in the feet of the person.

Cheyenne

9/25/2019 10:58:33 am

I agree that’s person should see one as athemselves and not judge them for it and that determining the truth men’s you may have to walk in there shoes and been where they have gone to really understand them?

Caleb C

9/25/2019 10:46:04 am

This quote from To Kill A Mockingbird is saying we must consider everything that is going on in another person’s life. I remember a time when was told different things that directly contradicted each other. Most time we have to take the word of the more trustworthy and reliable person.

Cheyenne

9/25/2019 11:00:16 am

I agree that taking the side of the most reliable person is a good way to determine the truth but sometimes it doesn’t always make the person right about the situation.

Charlie

9/25/2019 10:48:13 am

The quote is stating that to truly understand a person, you have to look at life from their point of view. I can’t think of any stories that had contradictory statements. To find the truth you must go to the original.

Cheyenne Ward

9/25/2019 10:48:30 am

You may think something is right and someone may tell you it’s wrong visa versa but until you look and think about it in a different way or in their way you won’t know. There was a time my mom and I had an argument of what color falcore the dragon from the never ending story was and we were both right but we were both wrong because in certain lighting he’s whitish pink and in others he’s just white and we just remembered it differently. We can determine the truth by looking it up or trying to think of the discussion in the way they do.

Tyrell Wortley

9/25/2019 10:48:42 am

Until you look at a problem through another’s perspective, you can’t see the whole truth of everything. However, this is just my perspective on the quote. Once while I was at Boy’s State a friend of mine, a supervisor, and I held a conversation about gun control. We both argued our points, and listined to one another on our points of view. The three of us came to the conclusion that there was truth in our arguments. The three of us learn from that conversation, building upon what we knew to be true. When it comes to two conflicting sides, the real truth lies not always on either side but in between the two arguments. But there are a few exceptions, but those exceptions don’t always have an answer everyone will necessarily accept.

Kelton

9/30/2019 10:44:03 am

Everyone has a different point of view on certain things wether it’s true or not or even real or fake.

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