To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mocking Bird is a great book. There are so many principles we can learn from it and it has been the best book I have read all year. It was enjoyable even though we had to do annotations. I really didn’t like that a few people died expecally Tom Robensen but I also felt that it made sense and that it fit the book. It made you feel many emotions. It makes you mad at Bob Ewell. The book made me feel sympathetic towards Mayella. It makes you sad because of all the racism towards the black people. Tom Robensen should have been aquitted and it makes you angry that he doesn’t win the trial and very sad when he dies.

To the people that argue that it should be taken out of schools I will frankly oppose them. In school we should learn how to read and write and become edjucated. Modern books can help us do that, but I also think that we should learn great principles and learn about our nations history be it good or bad. I think that To Kill a Mocking Bird is a great example of that and teaches so many principles.

Although I think we should read more than one book To Kill a Mocking Bird should be included. A proposition that might help both sides would be to read a modern book or two and then read some classics like To Kill a Mocking Bird and Moby Dick. Like I said before To Kill a Mocking Bird is a very great book and it is now one of my all time favorites. Without school I wouldn’t have read it.

One of my favorite parts of the book is the trial scene. When Atticus knows he has no chance to win and still tries his best to be victorious and in a way is. He purpose is not to gain the respect of others but he does. Sure some people hate him but the people that matter respect him so much and even send him gifts during a very hard time (the great depression). You can see their love and really feel the emotions of the people.

My favorite quote of the book is" you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of veiw... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." It really means a lot to me and I can really see it.

Overall this is one of my favorite all time books of my young life. I have really enjoyed reading it and learned a lot about principles and peoples emotions and thoughts in different places. I wouldn’t want to switch this book out for anouther and I belive schools should too.