Elizabeth Gaskell once said, “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!” In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird”, the story is told through a young girl named Scout. Her and her family go through many adventures that teach them the ways of life and how to treat certain people. Eventually, Scout would soon see that not everyone was treated equally with her father saying, “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” Through symbolism and imagery, Harper Lee shows that you don’t judge a book by its cover. Symbolism proves that to know someone, you actually have to know what they are feeling and how they live. In Atticus Finch’s closing statement, he states that,