How Is To Kill A Mockingbird Relevant Today

Harper Lee’s classic and somewhat autobiographical novel, To Kill a Mockingbird has been extremely successful and wildly popular among people of all ages from the year it was first released. As a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the coming-of-age story was eventually adapted into a film which went on to win an Academy Award. The timeless story follows the childhood years of a young girl named Scout Finch, as she starts school, investigates a curious neighbor with her brother and best friend, and sorts through racist views prevalent in her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama. Although written from the perspective of a naive girl, the novel deals with mature themes and ideas such as prejudice, making its morals just as relevant today as yesterday. The theme that sometimes in life one may inflict mental or physical harm on another because …show more content…
As the plot develops, so does the theme that sometimes in life people will cause others mental and physical harm because they have formed an opinion of them without taking the time to fairly judge it. Although To Kill a Mockingbird was written in the nineteen-fifties and set in an even earlier time when racial prejudice and segregation was a much larger issue, it can still apply in the present day. Even today, racist and prejudice people exist and their views can hurt the people they affect. In addition, young adults reading the novel in school or even grown adults reading for pleasure can learn morals from Atticus about how you should treat others and handle yourself as you go through life. If the story were to play out in the modern world, the outcomes would most likely be pretty different, but the themes and ideas of not only prejudice, but growing up, education, good and evil, courage, and even small town southern life are timeless, which is probably why the book continues to be such a staple in