Reflection To Kill A Mockingbird

Before reading this book I had heard it was about a racist trial of an African American and that was the basic summary of it. After reading the book I found that the main part of the story was about the unfair trial because of a racist jury even though all evidence pointed to the white man who was actually responsible for the crime, the were other lessons that could be related to racism or any other type of discrimination. This book was a really good and easy read that had a deep meaning to it and a lesson. I cannot figure out though if the writer wrote this book to be a great story or a good lesson, it actually brings out a good story with a good lesson but because it was so well written, I cannot pin point the focus of either a good story of a good life lesson. I found that there were at least four different lessons that were obvious to me.

The first lesson that Scout shows us is that you need to put yourself In other people 's shoes. I really appreciated that lesson because I could relate that lesson to the same lesson from the one that we learned watching the video about the collars and that was defiantly an eye opener, but reading this book and seeing a 6 year old little girl do just that was astounding. That little girl learned something that sometimes take many many years for other people to learn and …show more content…
Atticus uses it as the literal meaning when he gives Scout and Gem a air riffle and he says they can shoot whatever bird they want except mockingbirds because they only produce music and don 't cause mischief. Atticus uses it as a metaphor to teach them to never hurt or do anything that would affect the innocent in any way that would be bad. This metaphor count for all of society but because African Americans are different they are usually ones that are innocent are just accused because it is easy to blame someone that is