With the release of To Kill a Mockingbird 58 years ago, it has sparked some controversies across the USA with it being banned in southern states and even some northern states. Harper Lee, the epitome of a writer who knows how to paint a picture in someone’s mind, wrote a story that describes the struggle of people living in the Great Depression. Even so, many educators are completely ignoring the messages and life lessons that this book gives,”Schools in Duluth, Minnesota, have banned To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn over the books’ use of racial slurs,” said by staff in the independent news. As a matter of fact, I believe that To Kill a Mockingbird should be read in U.S classrooms; the reason being that any reader could get something from it and change the readers paradigm. In To Kill a Mockingbird, there was a scene that took place on a summer afternoon in what seemed like an innocent peaceful day in Maycomb. A virtuous man by the name of Tom Robinson was arraigned …show more content…
When people are judged and discriminated because of their color, others tend to ignore the fact that they’re innocent and do nothing to the community. Miss Maudie expresses this when Scout asked why Atticus wouldn’t let them shoot a mockingbird. Miss Maudie explains,“ ‘Your father’s right,’ she said.’Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.’ ”(Lee,119) Now this shows a feeling of pity and respect towards innocent people and it’s even used as a metaphor towards Tom Robinson. As any sane human being would feel if people were nagging at them, yet they’ve done nothing wrong; hopeless and scared. This also plays along with what Atticus said about getting to see people’s perspectives before judging