Partner reading 4

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book with a theme/message which states that racism is bad. However there is a more deep and complex theme to it, it talks about how racism works. Not all forms of racism are the same, some people are just born hateful and raised in an environment filled with hate for a different race. Some develop hate towards a different race through maybe fear, or something happened to them which caused that hate and some through self-righteousness. However that person is being unable to realize that maybe talks, moves, acts, looks quite different from many other people and yourself, is actually exactly the same as you, a human being. This novel has the history of race like in America; it is based on making differences only to discriminate. 

To Kill A Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Genre: Historical Fiction
Number of Pages: 376

Summary:

The setting of the book is Maycob, Alabama, and it’s a very boring place. There the Finch family lives: Scout, her brother Jem, and their father Atticus. Every summer Scout and Jem are put together by Dill Harris, who talks about the local haunted house, the Radley Place. Then fall comes and Scout is starting school. Scout has to pass the Radly Place every day when she goes to school. That winter something terrible happens, Miss Maudie’s house catches on fire while Scout stands on the street freezing, then Boo Radley comes and puts a blanket over hear and she gets scared. Then at school Scout and Jem are getting criticism from her friends and classmates because their dad is a lawyer and has taken a client who is African-American, a guy named Tom Robinson. People say that her dad shouldn’t protect him because of his race. Then Christmas comes and Scout and Jem get their gifts, they get air rifles. Atticus teaches them how to shoot but tells them not to shoot mockingbirds since they didn’t do anything to them. One week later when Atticus goes out of town, the family cook takes the kids to her own African-American church, however a woman named Lulu doesn’t thing they belong there. The priest has a collection to support Tom Robinson and his family and doesn’t let anyone leave the church unless they have money. Tom is accused of raping Ewell’s daughter. When the kids talk to the cook, they realize that she has a life which they don’t know much about. When they get home they find out that Aunt Alexandra, who came so stay with them, has 2 goals, to teach the kids some family pride, and to get Scout to be a proper lady, and both seem unachievable. 

Quote: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." I choose this quote because I completely agree with the quote. I truly believe that you cant know a person well just by knowing how they look or what they wear, you need to dig deeper.