You never really know anyone until you step into their shoes and walk around in them. In other words, it's important to put yourself in someone else's place in order to understand them better, consider things from their perspective.Scout's greatest lesson is to recognize the validity and value of lives unlike hers and those of people she knows well. Scout describes the town of Maycomb as having several well defined class systems. There are the professional, educated white people where she and her family reside; the poor-but-proud Cracker class that the Cunninghams inhabit; the white and shiftless group that the Ewells represent and, grouped together solely by melanin content, the Negroes. The first group have the greatest freedom of choice in their lives, the last have the least. These gro