Banning Books In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

My mother has taught me quite a few things in my life. One of the things she told me is to find the positive side in life. This belief is so good, it can apply to banned books! One of these banned books, created by Harper Lee, bears the name To Kill a Mockingbird. In the book, a white girl experiences the unfairness of life firsthand when her father defends a black man in court for a crime he did not commit. With all of this in mind, the book To Kill a Mockingbird should no longer remain on the banned books list, removing restrictions across all schools. The book should not be banned because it prevents racism. The book contains multiple examples of injustice towards both black people and white people. These examples are references to prevent

This is a good example of what racism looks like, and together with it can be a reference to how racism looks like. The book To Kill a Mockingbird is a historical piece that should be read to know more about the time the book took place. The story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Money is difficult to come by. Accordingly, many do not have the money to buy things. The Cunninghams, for example, are a poor farming family that the depression hit the most. The Great Depression was so bad for farmers that “The Cunninghams had no money to pay for a lawyer, they simply paid us with what they had”(Lee 23). The Cunninghams and other people had no money to pay for things, so they paid for vegetables or whatever they had on hand. Atticus, the children's father, explains that “Professional people were poor because the farmers were poor”(Lee 23). This is quite important, for it proves that these books can be used in a historical sense, and these types of scenes in the book are excellent ways to teach students about