This book changed my life

This has taught me about the hard times blacks had to go through back then. With all the racism and hatred toward them. Also it taught me about the innocents of people but you their innocence doesn't effect their outcome of life. Atticus says
"Cal, what's all this?" He was staring at his breakfast plate. Calpurnia said, "Tom Robinson's daddy sent you along this chicken this morning. I fixed it." ... The kitchen table was loaded with enough food to bury the family: hunks of salt pork, tomatoes, beans, even scuppernongs. Atticus grinned when he found a jar of pickled pigs' knuckles." (213)

This book has help me my freshman year by teaching me the way blacks have been cheated in the past. But it also taught that even when you know you will probably fail you keep on trying, and i think it is a very helpful thing to know.

Life lessons

Through out chapters 22-28 Jem and scout learn many very helpful lessons. Out of all these lessons I think the best lesson they learned was the way other people treated blacks. When Jem was talking to Atticus about the way Bob Ewell spit in his face and threatened him, Atticus says " As you grow older, you'll See that white men cheat Black men every day of your life but let me tell you something and you don't for get it whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter, how rich he is, or how fine of a family he comes from, that white man is trash." (220) This is very important lesson for Jem to learn.

This is a lesson that my parents taught me but in a different form. They taught me never to discriminate against someone because of their race or any reason. they taught More that everyone should be treated equally no matter what color their skin is. This is an important lesson to learn because it teaches never o judge people by what they look like and to treat everyone equal.

Themes

I think there are many themes in "To Kill a Mocking Bird" But I think the best theme is Mocking bird motif is the best. I like this theme because it can be found many times through out the book. The phrase "to Kill a mocking bird" is the one of the most meaning full phrase because the mocking bird is an innocent person or animal that hasn't done anything wrong but people don't like them. There are people through out the book that represent the mocking bird like Dill, tom Robinson and Boo Radley. These people Are disliked by diffrent people all through out Maycomb.