Should To Kill A Mockingbird Be Banned Essay

Harper Lee published To Kill A Mockingbird in 1960. The book is based on the Lee’s observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The book quickly became successful and has become a classic of modern American literature. To Kill A Mockingbird became a part of the classroom classroom due to the themes brought up in the book, like racial injustice, rape, courage, and the destruction of innocence. Because of the use of rape as a plot device, a large amount of profanity, and the racial inequality, many believed that the book should be banned and not taught in the classroom as it would be harmful and would not be suitable for children. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird should not be banned because it contains great value by promoting equality and showing that what society thinks is not always best. To Kill A Mockingbird promotes racial equality in many different ways. To start, Atticus Finch is a white lawyer defending a wrongfully accused black man, Tom Robinson. Although he knows that the jury is going to find him guilty and that it may be detrimental to his career, he still chooses
However these arguments are unreasonable because Lee belittles it in the book. When talking about Tom Robinson’s conviction, Jem, Atticus’ son, asks Atticus, “How could they do it, how could they?” Atticus replied, “I don’t know,but the did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep.”(285) Lee and her novel do not support the racism that is constantly going on in the book. Also, when Lee found out about people saying that the book supported racism, she responded: “To hear that the novel is ‘immoral’ has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.”(Fifty Years of To Kill