To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

Literature is a reflection of what society was like at the time it was written, and we can learn from the past through this literature. It is beneficial to learn from the mistakes of the past so society is not doomed to repeat those same mistakes over and over again in an infinite loop. It is important that the past is not erased and literature ensures that. Learning about complex concepts from people who lived centuries or decades ago can provide a fresh perspective that may have not been thought of before. In Haper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, many intense themes are explored through the lens of someone in the 60s looking back at the 30s. The book explores topics like racism and death. Although the novel is sixty-years-old it still

While that sentence may seem extremely unrelatable to people today the themes relate to particularly pressing matters recently. The novel portrays a corrupt justice system that sentences an innocent black man by the name of Tom Robinson to death. Tom Robison is a mockingbird in that he is innocent, “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee). It is racism that causes this man's death and it is racism that has caused many deaths since. Although it is a work of fiction it is rooted in reality. To Kill a Mockingbird is Lee pleading with those who read her book to protect the innocent and not let ignorance take a man’s life. This was a lesson that has gone unlearned by many people. In 2011, 51 years after the original publication, an innocent black man named Troy Davis was sentenced to death in Georgia. He shared this with the world before he died, “The struggle for justice doesn’t end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davis’s who came before me and all the ones who will come after me,”(Gozan-Brown). Tom Robinson although fictional is very real. He is in all the real black men who have died just because of the color of their skin. He is in the courtroom begging to be seen as innocent. This has not stopped since Tom and it has not stopped since Troy. Lee had a very important message in

The book follows Corinne Parker after the death of the only girl she has ever loved. Corine struggles with grieving alone because no one knew that she and Maggie were in love. This book was published in 2020 but the subject matter has been around forever. Ultimately this book is about Corinne losing the person she loved, “Now my heart is with a girl, in a coffin, in the ground,” (Tyndall). No matter who you love everyone will lose a loved one. The concept of love and death will never go away. Who I Was with Her presents a way to cope. Corinne finds people who love and accept her. People who will hold her close and tell her everything is gonna be okay. Hiding the person you love is not a new concept. Queerness is not a new Concept. For centuries queer people have been forced to hide their love and that is not something lost to time. Two queer women Pat Herchel and Terry Donahue met in 1947 for 62 years they swore to anyone who asked that they were just the closest of friends. Suffering from Parkinson's Pat decided to tell her family about her girlfriend in 2009. They detailed their stories in a documentary one such story being this, “They were telling me about a dust storm in the 1940s in a little town in Saskatchewan, Canada, and because of the dust storm, they were able to stand right in the middle of the street and kiss,”(Bolan). These are two