To+kill+a+mocking+bird+essay

Dear Journal,

In the book //To Kill a Mockingbird// the time period was around the 1930s because it was in the time after the great depression. And I could tell that they lived in the south because they still had resist people. And I think that it was a small town because all the people that lived there knew about each other and everything was all around each other. I also found out that it took place in a small little town called Maycomb Country.

Also in the book I recognize a symbol and that was the mockingbird. Because when Scout and Jem receive an airsolf gun for Christmas Atticus tells them only to shoot at cans, and never shoot at a mockingbird because it is bad luck and that they are no harm to them all mocking birds ever do is sing beautifully and live peacefully, also that the mockingbird represents true goodness and purity. I also think that it kinda reminds us of Tom Robinson because he never did anything to Mayella Ewell, and another person that reminds me of a mockingbird is Boo Radley because he doesn’t bother anyone and the kids are always trying to see what he looks like and stuff when he is just trying to keep to himself. Again another symbol is Boo Radley because he is really an innocent person but from his childhood it looks like he isn’t because of the way his father raised him up to be.

One of the themes that I have seen in the novel is racism because of the time period is the time after the great depression and one example of it is when Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white girl. But Atticus fights for Tom because he knows that Tom didn’t rap Mayella and it was proven that he didn’t do that to her. Another theme in the story that I noticed was that you should never judge someone by the way they do things like in the book when Scout was saying rude remarks to the boy that put syrup all over his food. But she did get in trouble for that but I think that it is a theme because it is really rude to treat a guest like that. I think if somebody likes something then let them like it you don’t have to make a remark about it

I dont think that this is one of my best peices of writing. Because it was very confusing and harder to understand then the rest of the other peices of writing that we've done before. But i did try my hardest to go along with the topic.