Commentary On To Kill A Mockingbird

I remember strolling on the short, crowded hallway of Hurley Elementary walking with all my reading materials. Going in the last period class, felt so happy, with so much joy and pride since the day prior, I found out that I was one of 10 kids selected to travel to Chile for a student exchange program. “Nothing can ruin my mood”, is what I kept telling myself as I walked into Room 108, my least favorite class of the whole year. I swiftly got to my seat just in time for class. As I sat down, I heard a loud “BAM!”. It was louder than the lightning strike we all jumped out of our seats from earlier that day. Yet it was the sound we all were used to, it meant that class has started and we all needed to stop talking the way the early morning birds do. The grin I had on my white skinned …show more content…
“Open your To Kill A Mockingbird books and stop talking” is what Ms Padilla had demanded us to do. As I opened the slightly torn up book, with an image of a little girl on the front, it was an image of Scout looking at the tree above her with the title “To Kill a Mockingbird”. A crow looking up at the dark horizon of Maycomb. With leaves falling down like Atticus’s hope for the future. We were forced to annotate the heck of the soft, paperback book, so I pulled out my 2 packs of Cerulean colored Post It notes, matching the newly bought sky blue pen I bought. I started to do what Ms Padilla ordered us to do and started reading the award winning book. I started ripping my sticky notes out so many times that Ms. Padilla sarcastically told me “Chill”, with a slight giggle of a school girl. I remember relating to the text