Book Report To Kill A Mockingbird

Book Title: To Kill a Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee Setting: Maycomb County, Alabama (During the 1930s)

When I first read To Kill a Mockingbird, I felt uninterested as most of the content to me was bland. It seemed to be an ordinary book about the life of the Finch family, as seen through the eyes of a young girl by name of Scout Finch. The pace felt slow and I struggled to keep my head focused when reading the book. I truly wondered how such a book could win an award like the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Harper Lee surprisingly did not mention anything about hardship near the beginning of the book which seemed odd to me because this was around the time of the Great Depression.

From what I have read so far, I have a feeling that Arthur

For example, Scout describes Calpurnia as rather, tyrannical and bossy. The characters are explained almost as if you were sitting right next to Scout and having a 1 on 1 conversation about her childhood.

Harper Lee seems to avoid giving too much detail about each character in the beginning due to the fact that there will be much more detail about them once Scout interacts with them. However, what is mentioned by Scout only covered the way the other characters act around her and how she views them. Ever since I was about 6, I played football with a boy named Matthew who lived about a minute away from me. Every once in awhile, we would accidentally throw the ball over the fence. This always made us scared because we were afraid that they or their dog would see us and catch us. So every time that we accidentally threw the ball over, we would grab a chair, climb over the fence, grab the ball and climb back over. This is similar to how Scout and her friends are scared to go near The Radley’s house and sometimes risked touching it. Although it isn’t exactly the same, there are many similar

I recall two particular stories about how two black men (Michael Brown and Eric Garner) were killed. Tom Robinson’s death also reminds me of the way Michael and Eric were treated, Michael was shot to death and Eric was held in a chokehold until he could not breath and died. In all three cases, the death of a black man was caused by a white authority figure, and there is evidence that the death was unjustified. What happens when the people we trust are the ones who turn on us? They say that history repeats itself, and it did so for Michael Brown and Eric Garner. It’s quite sad (and frightening) that such events happen due to bias towards people of color. We’re all human, with emotions, lives, friends, and families. Why do we let such things like skin color affect how perceive