Would you want to shelter our youth from America’s flaky history and instead tell them lies about what happened when a black man couldn’t go to school with a white person? That’s what could happen if we stop reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. If it is still taught in schools the children of America get to experience the novel’s great life lessons such as not to be so quick to judge people, the novel’s great characters, and the superb symbolism in the book.
To Kill a Mockingbird should still be taught in schools because it teaches the reader some great life lessons. For example when Atticus was defending Tom Robinson he said, “Simply because we’re licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try not to win.” This quote is teaching the reader that even if you think you'll lose is no reason to give up and you should still try. Another example of this is when Atticus was talking to Jem and Scout and he says “...it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” …show more content…
For example Atticus, he’s a great father, a fantastic lawyer, and for when this book was written he wasn’t judgemental. A quote that shows this is when Atticus more or less says to Jem there’s a lot of ugliness in this world and I wish I could protect you from it but that’s impossible. This is showing that Atticus wants to shelter his son from the bad parts of the world but he knows that’s impossible. For further evidence we look at Scout throughout the book, Scout in the beginning of the book only being six she is understandably quite childish, but towards the end of the book she becomes more of an adult with help for Atticus and everything that happens throughout the two years this book spans. In society it takes a while for people to finally understand that the world can be a very dark and scary place and Scout learns this when she’s
To Kill a Mockingbird should still be taught in schools because it teaches the reader some great life lessons. For example when Atticus was defending Tom Robinson he said, “Simply because we’re licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try not to win.” This quote is teaching the reader that even if you think you'll lose is no reason to give up and you should still try. Another example of this is when Atticus was talking to Jem and Scout and he says “...it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” …show more content…
For example Atticus, he’s a great father, a fantastic lawyer, and for when this book was written he wasn’t judgemental. A quote that shows this is when Atticus more or less says to Jem there’s a lot of ugliness in this world and I wish I could protect you from it but that’s impossible. This is showing that Atticus wants to shelter his son from the bad parts of the world but he knows that’s impossible. For further evidence we look at Scout throughout the book, Scout in the beginning of the book only being six she is understandably quite childish, but towards the end of the book she becomes more of an adult with help for Atticus and everything that happens throughout the two years this book spans. In society it takes a while for people to finally understand that the world can be a very dark and scary place and Scout learns this when she’s