Coming Of Age Book Review To Kill A Mockingbird

A coming-of-age novel with a twist would be the best description for the book "To Kill a Mockingbird", as a result of the plot taking place in a girl's childhood life in a Southern town. To this day this book is extremely successful popular, even after 53 years! I would recommend this book to my new English teacher since the book was written in a smooth and flowing manner, has achieved many awards and maintains popularity, and the messages portrayed in the book are very mind opening. The book is about Jean Louise Finch’s (the narrator), more commonly known as Scout, life in a neighborhood in Alabama during the Great Depression in the 1920s-1930s. Scout’s experiences give her many lessons. One of the most important lessons she learned in

The book was written in Scout’s point of view, adding a sense of youth and curiosity to the novel. Scout is is also very descriptive, creating the illusion of reality, which is great because as a reader, you will be taken away and you will be transported into her shoes and you will grow to understand her actions. Scout was very similar but differentiate to Harper Lee, the author, which I believe gave Lee ambition to really try to fulfill the character’s personality. All of this engages the reader and makes it hard to put the book down! Overall, the point of view makes it easier for the reader to understand and makes the flow of things

“As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.” Some of my favorite messages surround racism and the morals and opinions of some of the characters. Another message that opened my mind was said by Scout’s father, Atticus. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” This means a lot to me since everyone is quick to judge anyone for anything without understanding the situations that they’re in or the reasoning behind those things we condemn them for. “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” This was another meaningful quote because we can apply it to real world events even after 50 years of the book being published. For example, gay marriage has been legalized in all 50 states and people immediately tried to justify their awful behavior to guarantee their spot in another world that they don’t