Essay On To Kill A Mockingbird

If you’ve never read to kill a mockingbird I truly believe you’re missing out on something. I would recommend this book to people who are able to understand and have the maturity to read a book like to kill a mockingbird only because of the racism and sexual content in the book. I will only give a brief description of the book because I don’t want to spoil anything if you do end up reading it. The author of the book is Harper Lee. Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, a sleepy small town similar in many ways to Maycomb, the setting of to kill a mockingbird Like Atticus Finch, the father of Scout, the narrator and protagonist of to kill a mockingbird , Lee’s father was a lawyer. Among Lee’s childhood friends was

Reality. Scout's misconception of her father being old, tired, and never having time to teach her as she told Miss Caroline. And also the misconception of Boo Radley never leaving his home. Another is Jem's judgement of Mrs. Dubose. He thought she was just mean but she really had an addiction to morphine. As it appears to me the central purpose of the novel is to highlight the injustice of racial discrimination that existed during late 1930's in places like Maycomb. This has been done in a way that does not label anyone as a villain. Also, the novel is full of moral advice, primarily given through behavior and talks of Atticus. The story is, to me, about poverty, power, racism, inequity, and how one man attempted to change the status quo. It's about family and extended family, and trying to hold everything together when the world seems to be falling apart (economically, it was a very bad time in the US, and around the world). To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the finest American novels ever written, and it deserves to be read by generations to come. Its portrayal of life in the American South is both poignant and painful, and one that should be remembered in literature like that by Harper