To Kill A Mockingbird is definitely the best book read last semester by Harper Lee because of his big three themes; racism, justice and honesty. While these may not seem very compulsive topics, Lee did a splendid job at adding these to the story. Scout is one of the main characters of this story, her rambunctiousness, curiosity, leads to her learning and growing this makes her become wise and conscientious of the world around her. As the novel concludes, it points out that you can never understand a person until you walk around in his skin. Scout tries to figure out why people are put into different categories in this world race, income, heritage, but in her eyes, none of that makes a difference. Racism is discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. In the book Scout was standing on the front porch looking out at the town and Atticus approaches her and proclaims “ You never understand a person from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around it.” (chap 3) This simple principal gives Scout a better understanding of how she can go from other peoples perspective. She struggles putting this into practice throughout the novel. Towards the end of To Kill a …show more content…
Throughout the novel Atticus is showing justice for Tom in court for trying to give him the fair trial he deserves. In the trial, justice is brought up greatly because Tom Robinson is black and the town is against the blacks. “So far, things were utterly dull: nobody had thundered, there were no arguments between opposing counsel, there was no drama.” (chap 17) The topic is explored in many divergent ways. Boo and Tom Robinson are similar to two mockingbirds, they do nothing bad just “sing”. When justice hasn't been fulfilled and the right-doing is ignored then the innocent "mockingbirds" of the world suffer as a