Should To Kill A Mockingbird Be Banned In Schools?

During Atticus’ closing statement, he declares that “in our courts all men are created equal.”(Lee 274). During a time of racism and segregation, a six-year-old girl named Jean Louise Finch has to deal with her father, who is a lawyer, taking a case in which he has to defend a black man who was accused of raping a white woman. The court falsely accused him of raping her and he was sent to jail. The dad of the girl wanted to get back at Atticus for accusing him of hitting her by going after Atticus’s kids, but Boo Bradley saved them. “To Kill a Mockingbird” should not be banned in schools because it teaches kids why using explicit language is bad, it teaches about what our country used to be like 90 years ago, and it teaches the theme of the

That’s common” (85). This is significant because the book is not promoting saying the n-word. It is just saying what everyone called black people back then. This is important because even though it says the n-word a lot in the book, the main character is told not to say it. This supports my position because even though the book does say it, it is not prompting saying it so kids will not say it. “To Kill a Mockingbird should not be banned in schools because it teaches us what our country was like just 90 years ago. The book takes place in a time of segregation and during the Appleby 2 Great Depression, which were pivotal moments in our history. Franklin D. Roosevelt declared “Nothing to fear but fear itself.” (6).Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president during the Great Depression and that was one of his popular quotes during the Depression. This is crucial because we need to know what our past was like so we don’t make it into our future. It shows that the Great Depression had a huge impact on everything going on, from the economy to the people. “To Kill a Mockingbird” should not be banned in schools because it teaches the theme of the story that “all men are created