What role does this advice play in developing Scout's compassion for others in To Kill a Mockingbird? Atticus tells Scout that she needs to walk in her...

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advice to heart and uses it throughout the remainder of the novel. Atticus explained that Miss
Caroline's decision to try and provide young Walter Cunningham with money for lunch (he refused
to accept it) was an honest mistake on her part, and if Scout and Walter "had put ourselves
in her shoes," they would have understood that as a newcomer to town, she could not be
expected to learn the town's ways in a single day. Scout uses this advice effectively at the end
of the novel after she escortsback home following the attack by Bob Ewell. After Boo closes the
door...