From the Bookshelf of Read the Movie…

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of those books that are only read because teachers tell their students to. "It isn't all that interesting," everyone told me. So when I read its synopsis, I surprisingly found it interesting. Here I was, wanting to read a classic book, yet no teacher has assigned me to even pick it up. Eventually, I reserved it as an audiobook on CD at the library. It was about time I read it.

When I got it, I stuck the CD in an battery-powered CD player, wrapped myself in b

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of those books that are only read because teachers tell their students to. "It isn't all that interesting," everyone told me. So when I read its synopsis, I surprisingly found it interesting. Here I was, wanting to read a classic book, yet no teacher has assigned me to even pick it up. Eventually, I reserved it as an audiobook on CD at the library. It was about time I read it.

When I got it, I stuck the CD in an battery-powered CD player, wrapped myself in blankets, and drank hot cocoa. It was pretty good. For the first few chapters, I was slightly disturbed. You see, there are certain kinds of books that have events after events that don't have anything to do with each other. They had mini-stories. I thought TKM was one of those books. I was wrong. In the end, all the events connect. It took a long time to get to the point, but it did. And I was not disappointed.

Throughout the whole book, the issue of racial discrimination is addressed. It is probably the whole theme of the book. The setting takes place way before any racial equality was practiced, so everybody had slaves and looked down on black people. Atticus, however, taught Jem and Scout to treat everybody with respect, even if their skin is a different color. One day, a black man named Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. Unfortunately, every lawyer knows that the jury will always side with the white person when it comes to a white vs. black case. Nevertheless, Atticus defends Tom.

There are many characters in the book that look down upon the black people, and it makes me happy when someone different, like Atticus and Scout, come along and help them.

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.
-Atticus Finch”