Although only finished just under a month ago, the book To Kill A Mockingbird has had a great effect on how I look at my future, as well as how I look at myself now in preparation for the future. In this fantastic, well-written, and nationally renowned work, Harper Lee conceived a character that I was just taken with. That character’s name is Atticus Finch, a wise, respectful lawyer who follows “The Golden Rule”, a self-established philosophy that basically states that you should not judge someone until you’ve stood in their shoes and looked at the world from their perspective. As a result of me being told to read this book that, throughout the first few chapters, I thought was the most boring, overrated “work of art” I had ever seen, my life
