To Kill a Mockingbird
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This quote is from the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. Lee creates a theme that illustrates the injustices of racism, ignorance, and quick judgement of others. The first half of the book you get the impression growing up in small town Alabama is sweet and perfect. After all Lee dismantles this sweet affectionate portrait town and reveals the town as a rotten, rural underside filled with social lies, and ignorance. But don’t be fooled not everyone in To Kill a Mockingbird is labeled as good or evil. Every character provides the personality of a normal human. Each character has their flaws and weaknesses.
In to Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes about how racism, courage, and generosity brings together a family in the southern town of Maycomb. This novel is told from the perspective of a maturing girl named Scout. In Maycomb, times are challenging dealing with racism and the depression which Scout investigates first hand. Harper Lee was a huge commercial success, earning Pulitzer Prize and sales that now number 30 million. She hasn’t published a novel since To Kill a Mockingbird. One moral lesson I took from the …show more content…
The way Atticus does this willing opens a new perspective for Scout, she explores issues of race, class, and loss of innocence. But why do people like this book so much? Oprah Winfrey states “Harper Lee’s masterpiece-my favorite novel of all time traces one lawyer’s effort to defend a wrongly accused black man without sacrificing the innocence of his children.” Ken Shafer said “Just wonderful. I’ve seen the movie many times but reading the book was a
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This quote is from the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. Lee creates a theme that illustrates the injustices of racism, ignorance, and quick judgement of others. The first half of the book you get the impression growing up in small town Alabama is sweet and perfect. After all Lee dismantles this sweet affectionate portrait town and reveals the town as a rotten, rural underside filled with social lies, and ignorance. But don’t be fooled not everyone in To Kill a Mockingbird is labeled as good or evil. Every character provides the personality of a normal human. Each character has their flaws and weaknesses.
In to Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes about how racism, courage, and generosity brings together a family in the southern town of Maycomb. This novel is told from the perspective of a maturing girl named Scout. In Maycomb, times are challenging dealing with racism and the depression which Scout investigates first hand. Harper Lee was a huge commercial success, earning Pulitzer Prize and sales that now number 30 million. She hasn’t published a novel since To Kill a Mockingbird. One moral lesson I took from the …show more content…
The way Atticus does this willing opens a new perspective for Scout, she explores issues of race, class, and loss of innocence. But why do people like this book so much? Oprah Winfrey states “Harper Lee’s masterpiece-my favorite novel of all time traces one lawyer’s effort to defend a wrongly accused black man without sacrificing the innocence of his children.” Ken Shafer said “Just wonderful. I’ve seen the movie many times but reading the book was a