To Kill a Mocking Bird Essay

On Monday April 24, 2017 in Harrison, Arkansas a church van for the Christian Life Center Church, that was driving either to or from church, was driving on a state highway when four year old Emily Rose Turner walked to the back of the bus, pulled the latch, and fell out the back of the bus. The children on the bus alerted the bus driver who then pulled over a little bit up the road. Ryan Ciampoli, a trained emergency medical technician, was driving behind the van when this incident happened. Ciampoli stopped his truck and went to check on the four year old girl. The girl was unconscious when Ciampoli approached her and came too when he picked her up. Ciampoli then moved the Emily Rose Turner out of traffic filled road and brought her to a nearby parking lot where they called 911 and waited for EMS to arrive. Emily Rose Turner only suffered from a broken jaw and had to get surgery for it. The adult male bus driver was the only adult on the church bus filled with children when he incident happened. (Stapleton, J. C. (n.d.)

If the critics had followed Atticus’ advice into Kill a Mockingbird and “climbed into the skin” (Lee, 1960, pg. 87) of the bus driver, they might understand that the blame may not be on the bus driver for neglecting to watch the children on the bus and the rescuer had to move the little girl out of danger even though it may have caused more damage to the Emily Rose Turner than her initial injuries.

The bus driver of the Christian Life Center Church is a senior member of the church who was taking the kids on the van either to or from a church sponsored event. Some critics of the event are blaming the bus driver for neglecting to watch the all the children while they were in his care on the bus (Adams, C. 2017). The parents said that they do not blame him since there were several children on the bus and that it is hard to keep track of all of them. (Stapleton,J. C.)

Ryan Ciampoli is a trained EMT who was off duty at the time the event took place. Once he approached Emily Rose Turner she was unconscious and badly hurt. He knew that if he didn’t move Emily she could sustain even greater injuries due to the fact that they were in the middle of a busy interstate road. (Stapleton, J. C.) Even though Ciampoli is getting criticized for moving Emily he knew it was the right thing to do, “ Typically,