To Kill a Mockingbird

The smell of dirt fills the air. Their isn’t one bone, one inch of his skin that isn’t covered by dirt and grime, he breathes for the white community, he sleeps and lives for the white community, his very existence seems nothing more then to bend to the needs and wants of those around him. He is the blame of all evils and the source of no good, he is known as a Blackman back in the early 1900’s in a town called Maycomb, Alabama the home to this story. To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the most outstanding books of racism and racial rights that has ever hit the hearts of its readers. This book expresses and shows the hardness and bitter truth of life that a human being had to endure and shows how the bitter hatred of one mans color can condemn him without little or no shreds of proof simply because his skin is a darker color. The detailed settings and excellently described story plot pull this book along and shows how the good of people can be blindly hidden threw layers of deceit.

This story relies heavily upon the symbol of a mockingbird, this mockingbird is the symbol of good, to destroy this mocking bird is to destroy everything that is good in there society. A character in the book by Atticus is the source of every morale decision imaginable. He is known as the father to the narrator of the book scout and he is the lawyer in the local town of Maycomb, and the defense of Tom Robinson the black field hand that was accused of rape. Tom is one of the novel’s mockingbirds, he is a prime example of a man pure and innocent at heart that will be destroyed by the evil around him simply because he was born Black. Atticus once stated “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience” Spoken by Atticus (Ch 11). All it takes is one person, one mind; one general thought to get the crowd moving in the right direction. Atticus is a constant source of good that pours in threw the evil that blinds it.

There is one thing that remains the same throughout this novel and it is the heart of the children. The children in this novel know of no evil. They have never experienced it, they are use to what they are use to and have yet to realize the general consensus of it all. When a child shows more feelings more general concern for an individual then a full grown adult you know that something is getting lost along the way. “So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children” Spoken by Atticus (Ch 16). The children are our society, what they learn, what they do. They are the next generation and it is up to them on how our world will be developed and