The Doors of Perception

9/28/2021

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?

39 Comments

Garrett

9/28/2021 12:14:33 pm

In the quote, the 2 characters are arguing over what they see in the illusion. I was in a car accident and the people who crashed into me didn't think they were at fault even though they ran a stop sign. We differed because we are different people and have different thoughts and feelings. Do determine the truth, you have to know all the sides of the story.

Michael Petroni

9/28/2021 12:17:24 pm

That was really well stated

Mason LaMont

9/28/2021 12:19:52 pm

Did you die in the car accident.

Leslie Scoggins

9/28/2021 12:22:40 pm

that is very true and its easy to put the blame on others too instead of asking relevant questions to find out what happened.

9/28/2021 12:25:53 pm

great job stating that quote

Michael Petroni

9/28/2021 12:16:47 pm

In summary, the quote means that you won't know why a person is or why they do something until you have lived his life. An example of this in my life happened when we were talking about would you rather questions in business math and how people had different views on the same things.

Garrett

9/28/2021 12:20:50 pm

I think it's crazy how people have different views over the same thing everyone else sees.

Mason LaMont

9/28/2021 12:20:55 pm

I like your example.

Eliza

9/28/2021 12:22:13 pm

That's a good example.

9/28/2021 12:24:44 pm

good example of the quote

Ryan Morgan

9/28/2021 12:28:06 pm

Great example

trishelle

9/28/2021 12:28:58 pm

Good example!!

Mason LaMont

9/28/2021 12:17:35 pm

You don't know how someone perceives something until you look at it from their point of view. I heard that ady spray painted on wyatts tires, but she said it wasnt her. Turns out it was actually colter. They differed because everyone thought it was ady because she had a reason to. Colter did not. It is hard to determine truth until someone admits it was them.

Michael Petroni

9/28/2021 12:18:26 pm

You used a great example

Leslie Scoggins

9/28/2021 12:20:36 pm

what color was the paint?

Garrett

9/28/2021 12:21:47 pm

It is pretty hard to find the truth if someone doesn't admit to anything.

Ryan Morgan

9/28/2021 12:25:19 pm

Cant believe Colter would do that

Leslie Scoggins

9/28/2021 12:19:03 pm

When my grandpa met my boyfriend he thought he was being protective. I personally found him to be completely rude and out right judgy. They didn't try to get to know him and catagorized him biased on apperance and where he came from. My grandma says that he was being rightfully catious and protective but when you talk to my boyfriend he says they are controlling and anal. so there are four perspectives on one situation all with different views.

Raven

9/28/2021 12:25:03 pm

Did he eventually take the time to meet him.

Eliza

9/28/2021 12:20:43 pm

I think my biggest example of seeing two sides of the story is my brother. He was married before his current wife and she was very very mean to him and all of my family. She thought that no one could tell and she was just keeping it to herself. Also you never know what someone is going though so you always should be kind and considerate.

AJ Anderson

9/28/2021 12:21:55 pm

I like this quote because I myself do try to look at situations in other peoples shoes. Lots of moments make me think of how it goes on in others eyes. I try to consider this before saying a lot of things to people because nobody wants to be offensive.

Leslie Scoggins

9/28/2021 12:26:02 pm

i dont think being offensive is an issue. you could be honest about how something is and someone could still get offended. The issue with perception and saying something is ignorance. Everyone views people differently and you shouldnt change yourself due to others opinions but you should try to be well educated if you are going to speak freely about a subject.

Raven

9/28/2021 12:22:54 pm

When I hear two versions of a topic is any form of drama. You hear both sides of the situation and most time time there different. They differ because each person tries to back up there side so it makes them sound better in the situation. To find the truth you either confront the person in the discussion or choose which side to pick.

Eliza

9/28/2021 12:24:56 pm

That's a good idea on how to deal with it.

Ryan Morgan

9/28/2021 12:24:21 pm

Once I was told hunter toilet papered my house. But I'm not stupid we have cameras, Jonny and Zane were the sissy's that toilet papered my house. People said it was hunter because hunter left at the time it was done. We determined the truth by looking at the cameras.

trishelle

9/28/2021 12:30:17 pm

You have camera's at your house.

wyatt

9/28/2021 12:25:19 pm

Walking in someones shoes is the best way to figure out why someone does something they do. I heard garret kissed eliza but it was actaully tyler martens.

colter

9/28/2021 12:27:34 pm

wow

Leslie Scoggins

9/28/2021 12:29:46 pm

not gonna lie thats kinda rude. Who people kiss isnt anyone else's buisness. If they wanted peole to know they would have said something. its not your obligation to say something like that. consider others feelings first.

wyatt

9/28/2021 12:31:54 pm

Itś an inside joke. Great insight though!

Eliza

9/28/2021 06:28:00 pm

Thank you Leslie! I'm not sure what "inside joke" Wyatt is talking about but thank you for saying something.

Colter

9/28/2021 12:26:26 pm

All people are different. We have different perspectives. One time Ady thought only 4 people thrashed her car but really like 20 people were involved. She thought 4 did it because 4 people were still in the parking lot.

William Rackham

9/28/2021 12:27:09 pm

The quote means that you cant understand a person without living their life. This happened to me when my Grandparents got into a fight and told everyone a their side of the story. We can determine the truth by getting more persectives.

Raven

9/28/2021 12:28:15 pm

I like how you described the quote.

Tyler Martens

9/28/2021 12:27:40 pm

The quote is saying do not judge people before you have experience the things they have.

wyatt

9/28/2021 12:32:19 pm

facts

Trishelle

9/28/2021 12:28:27 pm

You never know what the truth is even hearing both sides of the story. A lot of people lie when trying to get out of something or trying to get people on their side. An example would be one time my water bottle fell of the table, I thought it was mason but it was really me.

Dakota Bigelow

9/28/2021 12:30:37 pm

I like the quote because not one person can truly understand what is going on in another person's life until they live in their life. There was a time while I was working at Taco Grande when a customer thought they were supposed to get a full order of tater tots on a platter when actually they only just get eight.

Toby Pace

9/30/2021 12:12:05 pm

The quote is saying that everyone has their own sense of perception and will respond to events differently. And people have a different thought process throughout the day. Once someone I know was hanging out with someone smoking a blunt and was being offered to take a hit of it, but they said no. While this was happening someone else I knew walked in and got mad at the first person because they thought that they were smoking it when in fact they were not.

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