“Without empathy, our morality crumbles. Studies show that empathy is good for your health, it reduces bullying, it’s good for your marriage, and it reduces prejudice and racism. Without empathy there cannot be a just society.” (Shelly White Wood)
My High School Freshman is reading Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird in her English class. The poor thing doesn’t have a chance, with two parents who have their own personal copies between us and own the movie, we are on her every minute, asking her “where she is in the book, what’s happening now, and has she gotten to the trial yet?”
It’s a beautiful book, with rich story telling of childhood, summertime, make-believe and growing up in a time of political and social unrest. Remember how Scout has to encounter her classmates and even her relatives say that Atticus is a word that she is not aloud to say and doesn’t know what it means, or what they mean when they say it? Remember how Atticus knows he is going to lose the case, but he takes the case anyway? Remember how he tried to protect her…
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