To Kill A Mockingbird Book Report

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When reading a book there are multiple worlds or minds of the book. You got the reader's or audience’s world, the novel's world, and of course you go the author’s world. As the reader my mindset is different from the novel’s characters and the author. So therefore, here are a few of examples from to kill a mockingbird. As an audience member of To Kill a Mockingbird, I face differences and relations to the characters and the author in my world. Compared to the book I don’t know what it feels like to be made fun of for my race, religion, gender, or social class. However, I do know what it feels like for those kind of things for example, most of the boys hate it when I play football with them so they don't usually pass to me, kind of like how scout wasn't ‘allowed’ to play with Jem because they were doing boy stuff. Their are some characters in the book that go through tough things in turn make me feel sorry for them. One of them is Bob ewell’s children because they are beaten when their …show more content…
Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, was born in 1928 where racism and racial slurs were part of everyday dialect. Her goal for her story was to show the young people how bad these prejudices and this racist time period. An example in the book was how everyone thought Mr. Raymond was a drunk for marrying a black women and having mixed children, when he carried around a bottle in a bag it turned out to be just coca-cola. In the book I feel like Lee is most like scout because she was learning about racism and I believe during the setting she was roughly scout’s age, so she was going back into her childhood and recalling her growing up with it all around her. Also a fun fact Lee’s mother’s name was Frances Cunningham Finch which are two of the characters last names, one of which is

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