To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favorite books. I remember when I first read it I was really struck with one simple concept that Atticus was trying to teach to Scout throughout the book: you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. I guess if you think about it, this approach can solve many if not most of the problems our society has. The book, being a masterpiece that it is, is of course a powerful tool to spread this idea, but I also thought, isn’t it just a very natural concept? Why do we even need a book to see this? And so I wrote a little poem about that feeling.
It doesn't take an Atticus
Or any little girl
To state this simple truth
I'm sharing with you all
There's just a single pair of shoes
That you own to be found
But you can try some others too
Put on and walk around
One simple trick, as old as is
The story of mankind
The only way to understand
Another person's mind
It doesn't take an Atticus
It doesn't take a Scout
To learn this lesson you will need
To see what life's about
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