To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel published in 1960 and it is one of the famous books in American literature. The plot and the characters of the story are about a small family living in a boring place that has racism, as a result of that, they learn a lot of life lessons especially the little girl named Scout. The author uses the mockingbird as the symbol of the innocent people that have never intended to harm or cause damage only making music for us, so if somebody kills a mockingbird it is considered as a sin and means to use your power on the people who are weaker than you. The core of the book shows how scout grows up and learns a lot from her father, Atticus and from the mockingbird story. This essay will summarize the whole
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The book takes place between 1933-1935 in Macomb, Alabama, which is a small, sleepy and boring town in the south. The main character of the story is Scout who learns a lot of lessons during that time; she lives in a small house with her brother Jem, her father, Atticus, who is a lawyer. Every summer a friend named Dill comes and plays with Scout and Jem and they shared their obsession of Boo Radley, who is a person that lives in a house with his brother. The three kids imagine that Boo Radley is an ugly ghost and he will eat every child he catches. They have these thoughts about him because nobody has seen him outside for years. However, when the winter starts Scout and Jem have to go to school. Every day when they go to school they see the Radley house and still enjoy their obsession about Boo. Suddenly they start to find small gifts inside the tree near the Radley house. During that time, Scout's father Atticus has a case to defend, a black man named Tom Robinson who was accused of raping white women named Mayella Ewell. As a result of this case, Scout has problems in school because her classmates started to criticize her because her father is defending a black man. Because of racism many …show more content…
Boo Radley story helps Scout to learn about the first life lesson that nobody should judge people until you put yourself in their shoes. She deeply understands this lesson because she was thinking of Boo as monster or ghost while t he was the opposite. In addition, to that she learned that instead of making Boo Radley as the hero, we should respect his privacy because if he showed that to a public he will be destroyed. She also recognizes the idea if the mockingbird because her father Atticus said," shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (Lee 119). Scout was wondering about what Atticus said, so she asked her aunt, Miss Maudie about it, and she replied " you father is right" then 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. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."(Lee 119). As a result, of that, she learns the mockingbird lesson by
The book takes place between 1933-1935 in Macomb, Alabama, which is a small, sleepy and boring town in the south. The main character of the story is Scout who learns a lot of lessons during that time; she lives in a small house with her brother Jem, her father, Atticus, who is a lawyer. Every summer a friend named Dill comes and plays with Scout and Jem and they shared their obsession of Boo Radley, who is a person that lives in a house with his brother. The three kids imagine that Boo Radley is an ugly ghost and he will eat every child he catches. They have these thoughts about him because nobody has seen him outside for years. However, when the winter starts Scout and Jem have to go to school. Every day when they go to school they see the Radley house and still enjoy their obsession about Boo. Suddenly they start to find small gifts inside the tree near the Radley house. During that time, Scout's father Atticus has a case to defend, a black man named Tom Robinson who was accused of raping white women named Mayella Ewell. As a result of this case, Scout has problems in school because her classmates started to criticize her because her father is defending a black man. Because of racism many …show more content…
Boo Radley story helps Scout to learn about the first life lesson that nobody should judge people until you put yourself in their shoes. She deeply understands this lesson because she was thinking of Boo as monster or ghost while t he was the opposite. In addition, to that she learned that instead of making Boo Radley as the hero, we should respect his privacy because if he showed that to a public he will be destroyed. She also recognizes the idea if the mockingbird because her father Atticus said," shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (Lee 119). Scout was wondering about what Atticus said, so she asked her aunt, Miss Maudie about it, and she replied " you father is right" then 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. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."(Lee 119). As a result, of that, she learns the mockingbird lesson by