I read the book: To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. This book shows you how life was back in America in the early 1930’s. It shows how racism was prominent all over the country.
I love all the characters in this book - mainly Scout, Harper Lee made the book, so that even from the beginning you knew all the character's main personality traits and you felt like you had a personal connection to them. Atticus was one character who I found particularly interesting. Atticus was a person who knew what the world was like. He knew that there were many people who were selfish and self centered and wouldn’t help others. But even when he knew all this, he was one of the few characters in the book that continued to believe that there was good in the world. After Jem had seen prejudice in a jarring way at the trial, he saw how other people believed not everyone was equal. As he stated on, “If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other?” He didn’t
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Atticus is a very wise person with a caring nature and attitude. The whole book is mainly about symbolism with mockingbirds as the symbol Harper Lee used. The mockingbirds are reoccurring in the book. First, it appears in the title, then it is brought up in various situations. For example, one of Atticus’s lessons to Scout and Jem was, “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Scout doesn’t quite know what this means at first, and so she asked Miss Maudie about it. She responded with... “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, they don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” from this we learn that mockingbirds are innocent, loving creatures. From there, mockingbirds symbolized people such as Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Mayella