To Kill A Mockingbird Defense Essay

A Small’s Defense of To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird ignites a rebellion against the past. Many people believe that history should be taught through other means. While less racist and less “stereotypically generalized” books exist, To Kill a Mockingbird shows the past from a new, unseen before viewpoint (Isaac Saney 100). It is one of a kind. As seen in Jill May’s “In Defense of To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee’s book continues to be relevant in today’s society through its intense controversy over whether or not it should be banned in schools and by showing how racism, though less evident, is still on many people’s minds today.

This book was highly acclaimed by reviewers saying that it was a “worthwhile interpretation of the South’s social structures during the 1930s” and that it exhibited a

It has ignited a rebellion. For some reason, Western culture has a hard time moving on from past conflicts and working towards the future, as so many European countries have. Maybe it is because there is so much to gain from being “discriminated” against daily. While there are so many other morals to take from Lee’s book besides the main and important point of racism, people dwell just on how the racism in To Kill a Mockingbird makes them feel. So they might say the discrimination clouds their children's views, but history should be taught so as to not repeat itself. They have a hard time seeing past the discrimination to the good that the book offers. The censors derived their opinions from a reading consisting of looking for the bad. They read the book for one purpose, and that was to find what was wrong with it, not what the story really described. The book was not read in an educational setting, but instead with a heated and political state of mind (Jill May 5). Rather than indulging in racism the book confronted it, so why should it be