Know a Person Before you Judge Them

It is important that, when you portray someone in a book, or a poem, you know them from facts instead of rumors. Dante showed what happened when you judge someone off rumors in his Inferno, in which he portrays Odysseus (Ulysses) as being the exact opposite Odysseus he is in Homer's writing. If you judge someone off of something someone said to you, chances are that the judgement is wrong. It's just that person's personal opinion. To get to know a person's character, you need to know more than one thing about them. I personally have never known someone that has had this done to them, nor do I think anyone has ever done this to me. Before you speak out against someone, check with other people about them, or see if there is anything on the news about what they have done. Do a background check if the person is well known. If it is someone at school or something, check with teachers or other kids in the school.