To Kill A Mockingbird Life Lessons

Have you ever wondered how life would be if you had learned lessons earlier. If you had been taught respect. If you had a role model as a child. Harper Lee had wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. A story taking place in the mid 1900 when blacks were not equal to the whites. The story is about how a black man named Tom Robinson had been convicted of raping a white women. She had taught many life lessons, respect and some great role models. Millions of people all over the world proclaim that To Kill A Mockingbird is the most influential book of their lives. Others believe that the book should not be taught in classrooms today. I am not one of them.

One reason this book should be taught in school today is because it has taught me as a reader some valuable lessons. In the novel Atticus the father of two kids, Jem and scout, he had given his son a BB gun for christmas and had told him “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it 's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”. “Your father 's right. Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but create music for us to enjoy. They don 't eat up people 's gardens, don 't nest in corncribs, they don 't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That 's why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(pg 119) I can relate to this or learn that being rude to someone who only does …show more content…
It teaches you to not be judgmental. Shows you that you need to respect yourself and others. We should still continue teaching this book in classrooms today because we may not learn the lessons we have learned in this book otherwise. It also teaches us a little bit of history on how bad black people had it. These lessons help in modern society no matter the ages. Having respect ourselves and others just helps us as a person. We should continue teaching this book it has taught me and millions of others many life