to kill a mokcingbird

Imagine living in the 1930's dealing with racism, and hate. Its not easy to do, considering most people alive right now were not born, or even old enough to rememer the 1930's. In Harper Lees's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, She is trying to take place in the 1930's mainly dealing with racism and hate, and she has to explain it as best as she can. The problem is, this book is banned all over, and still at risk for it because of racial intolerance, and hateful language used in it. It would be thought that since it is around still, people would be used to it, but no. Keeping this book in the eigth grade would be hard, but with the right examples and explanations, as well as a good argument, it wont be hard at all.

First, In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, there is much value, even though it may be thought that is has none. This novel values the theme, dont judge a person, until you understand who they are and what they have been through. Yes, there are many negative parts to the book where people do judge, and go back on what this entire book is about, but thats not what this novel is about, or wants us to do. They dont want us to follow these parts, where they are negative, they are asking us to follow and understand the positive parts to the book, where they tell us not to judge, or be unfair. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-untl you climb into his skin and walk around it," (39.).Truly, people should not be judged until they are understood. This novel explains these types of positive things throughout the whole story. This would be a great book to keep in the eigth grade for future readers, so that they can be taught the same positive messages as we were.

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...it stands, its obvious that it is not too mature for readers in the eigth grade, nor is it a bad read. Eighth graders already experience this type of language and actions that characters use in the book, they just dont have it explained to them sually, like this book does. They should be taught more about the background of this time period, as well as racism and the hateful language, in the right way. Despite all of the negative parts in the book, which even the negative parts can be explained and turned to positive, there are way too many positive things in this book which outrule any negativity. All of the statistics show that this novel really isnt that bad as it is sometimes said to be.To Kill a Mockingbird is an amazing book, which shows real literature, and anyone who has read it is a lucky person to have, so future eighth graders should be that lucky as well.