What Does To Kill A Mocking Bird Mean To Me
Recently I studied a piece of literature deemed as a 'classic' work. Fortunately the slews that entertained the pages of this composition absolutely astonished me and putting the dog-eared pages to rest for the night was often like fighting a losing battle. The events of this book followed the lives of two young children and although said events were sometimes magnificently overwhelming they generally corroborated that of happy and exciting lives of curious children, better known as Jem and Scout Finch. (This is a very long sentence. A single sentence should contain just one idea. Break this one down.)Of course all children learn and grow up and as I conquered my way through the Pulitzer Prize winner 'To Kill A Mocking Bird', a famous work
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Scout is told that this is a lesson worth learning. Aunt Alexandra however, is a terrible example of this prejudice act (this doesn’t make much sense here, reword), often making remarks about how everyone has been set in the embarrassing ways of their families for generations. Diverting Scout's attention away from this (what is ‘this’?), Atticus says "...if you can learn this simple trick Scout, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks. You can never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,." Instead of disregardng this advice as no more than wise words from an old book, we should be applying this 'simple trick' whole-heartedly to our lives. Plain and simple, it's not fair that we judge someone when we have not seen the same beauties and terros of their personal histories and do not hold their hopes for the future. Scout realises that "...most people are...[good]...when you finally see them." (Page 309) insert other page references …show more content…
It took the beautiful warm hearts of Scout and Jem Finch to comprehend the lack of difference. They were being programmed to think that "...all black men are evil, all black men cannot be trusted,"(page reference?) but the Jews were just innocent people that could not help the race of which they were born. The children realised resentfully that this was just another on the long list of "ways of Macomb", (page reference?) which happened to be the height of
Scout is told that this is a lesson worth learning. Aunt Alexandra however, is a terrible example of this prejudice act (this doesn’t make much sense here, reword), often making remarks about how everyone has been set in the embarrassing ways of their families for generations. Diverting Scout's attention away from this (what is ‘this’?), Atticus says "...if you can learn this simple trick Scout, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks. You can never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,." Instead of disregardng this advice as no more than wise words from an old book, we should be applying this 'simple trick' whole-heartedly to our lives. Plain and simple, it's not fair that we judge someone when we have not seen the same beauties and terros of their personal histories and do not hold their hopes for the future. Scout realises that "...most people are...[good]...when you finally see them." (Page 309) insert other page references …show more content…
It took the beautiful warm hearts of Scout and Jem Finch to comprehend the lack of difference. They were being programmed to think that "...all black men are evil, all black men cannot be trusted,"(page reference?) but the Jews were just innocent people that could not help the race of which they were born. The children realised resentfully that this was just another on the long list of "ways of Macomb", (page reference?) which happened to be the height of