Summative Essay

         In life you end up meeting people you will love and people you will hate, but sometimes you have to overlook mistakes that you have made and walk a mile in someone else's shoes. Maybe the person you don't like as much is going through serious family matters and that is causing them to act more different and rude towards everyone. You can't just judge somebody from their family background or the way they act towards others because there is more to a person and you could find them to be really nice and sweet.


       Walking a mile in someone else's shoes is also shown in the novel ''The curious incident of the dog in the night-time''. This novel is about a dog murder mystery and it's showing what Christopher Boone does to solve the mystery, the novel also shows how Christopher views things in his everyday life he has a different view of things because of his autism. When Chrsitopher finds out that Mr.Boone killed the dog  he gets very frightened, that's when Christopher goes to his mother's house and his mother has to walk a mile in her husbands shoes who she had left 2 years ago. Mrs.Boone finds it hard to take Christopher anywhere espically a shopping mall because if Christopher is around a lot of people and different noises he lays on the ground and starts screaming. Mrs.Boone didn't realize how hard to take care of Christopher until he came to stay with her. He does and views things differently like he goes out at 3am to take a walk, he hates being in over crowded places, never wants his food touching, he bases his day on how many red cars go by in a day and he also dosen't understand what a lot of things mean like for example when he got arrested for killing Wellington the dog. When Mrs.Boone gets very frusterated she says to Christopher, "Please, Christopher. Don't give me any hassle right now, OK?" which is showing that Christopher is giving her a hassle and how he is hard to handle. Christopher's mother also said "Christopher, I am just about holding this together. But I am this close to losing it, all right? So just give me some'' which is referring to how Christopher's mother is having quite a hard time to keep things together and how he should let her handle things her way. Through all this Christopher's mother still and will love Christopher very much and now she understands how hard it must have been for Mr.Boone to get all through this all alone. 

     In Romeo and Juilet walking a mile in someone else's shoes is shown many times. As you know the big rivalry between the Capulet's and Montague's is continued through the whole play. When Romeo and Juilet fall in love with each other they forget differences and hate that there family has created between both of them. Romeo and Juilet walk a mile in each other's shoes because they used to hate there rivalry families but as soon as they fall in love 

they realize the mistakes there families have made and how it must be difficult for them to hate the families. When Juilet says “Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name'' which means that the name is my families enemy but when it comes to Romeo his name is just attached to Montague his arm, face and no other body part is attached to Montague. That's when Juilet realizes that Montagues aren't awful and rude at all so  as they fall in life it changes there view on each other's families. 

      Sometimes you also walk a mile in other family or friend's shoes. I also personally have before, I have a cousin who I thought before is really mean and just not nice. That cousin wouldn't talk to anybody and when you did try talking 

you would get a rude response like you shouldn't even be talking. But when I found out what difficult phases that cousin had gone through in life, I put myself in that spot and thought how I would feel and act if I was that cousin. Knowing about all these difficulties it changed my view on my cousin and made me realize how hard other people's childhood must have been and maybe that causes them to act the way they act and feel because when you have a difficult childhood it's hard for you to trust anyone. 

    Walking a mile in someone else's shoes can change your view on them forever. You realize and understand how many difficulties that person must have been through. You should judge somebody by thier family background. Or the way they act and this is shown greatly in the novel ''The curious incident of the dog in the night-time'' and the play ''Romeo and Juilet'' and also you could have personal walking a mile in someone's else's shoes like I did. You should try walking a mile in someone else's shoes before you judge the way they act towards you.