To Kill a Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee published is a novel in 1960. In spite of managing the major issues of assault and racial imbalance, the novel is prestigious for its glow and humor. Atticus Finch has filled in as an ethical legend for some readers and as a model of honesty for attorneys. The history experts Joseph Crespino clarifies, "In the 20th century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its main character, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism." [1]

Summary

To Kill a Mockingbird tells a story in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. The main character in this book is is Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch, a smart however the capricious six to nine years old girl. She is raised with her sibling, Jeremy Atticus (“Jem”), by a single parent man, their father Atticus Finch. He is a prominent lawyer who urges his kids to be compassionate and just. He prominently discloses to them that it is “a sin to kill a mockingbird,” insinuating the way that the birds are blameless and innocuous. At the point when Tom Robinson, one of the town’s Black citizens, is falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman, Atticus agrees to defend him in spite of the threats that Atticus got from the (white) people. At a certain point, he faces a crowd trying to lynch his client but he refuses to abandon him. Scout accidentally diffuses the situation. Even though Atticus gives a more convincing interpretation of evidence that the victim was assaulted by her father instead of his client, Tom, TOm is still convicted and then later killed while trying to escape imprisonment. A character compares his death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds.” [2]

Pros

The book is generally taught in schools in the United States with exercises that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. Many residents of Maycomb are racists and during the novel, Atticus is asked to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who is falsely accused of raping a white woman. Atticus keeps working on the case even though everyone knows he has little possibility to win. The author shares the story of the trial develop through the childlike eyes of Scout, as step by step both she and her brother learn some valuable life lessons from their father about tolerance, empathy, and understanding. [3]

Controversy

Harper Lee’s center focus is purely has a white point of view. Given that her narrator is a child growing up in the 1930s segregated South, maybe that’s inescapable. PeMaybe nothing else would be conceivable. Yet, one of the book's focal subjects is that you need to stroll around in another person's skin to understand them and Harper Lee doesn't really get under the skin of any of the dark characters. The closest story about Black residents is only Calpurnia, the family’s cook, but the novel never shares what she’s thinking or feeling. She gets to shares her opinion once where an event so startling that Scout remarks on it. In this book, Calpurnia is in the fictional tradition of the “happy black”, the happy slave. [4]

References

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird. Retrieved January 13 2021.
  2. Foca, Anna. To Kill a Mockingbird. Britannica. Retrieved January 13 2021.
  3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Plot summary. Retrieved January 13 2021.
  4. Is To Kill a Mockingbird a racist book?. The Guardian. Retrieved January 13 2021.