"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mocking bird."
This story is set during the post-depression era during 1935 in a small southern Alabama town. It is told through the eyes of Scout Finch, a tom-boy, and the beginning of the story follows the innocent childhood games of Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill as they try to lure a man named Boo Radley out of his house for the first time in decades. As Scout begins to mature the story takes a more dark aproach as her father Atticus Finch is appointed to take defense of a negro charged with rape. Soon their father is being ridiculed for doing his job. Then Scout begins to see the truth and ugliness of her townsfolk thoughts on the rights of Negros. After reading this book I thought it was well written for its time. The way the main characters grew up and matured over the course of the story was well done. But by todays standards, there are better examples of racism then this novel. The book "In the Heat of the Night", showed readers that racism still existed in ignorant little towns when the rest of the world veiwed everyone as equals. Back in the 30's everyone was prejudiced. The trial part of the book was good it was full of suspense and gives the reader a false sense of justice when Jem was so confident that the negro would be found innocent. But when he isn't we are remided of the ignorance of the small-minded folk just because they take the word of a drunk welfare man over a negros because the drunk man is white. In closing I thought the book was well written but it isn't a book I would read of my own choice.
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