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.