"To Kill a Mockingbird" Reaction!!:)))

     This book “To Kill a Mockingbird” was written by Harper Lee, and published in 1960. It went to win the Pulitzer Prize (In the US, one of 13 prizes that are given each year for excellent work in literature, music, or journalism.) in 1960 and later made into an Academy Award for the film. The author of the book, Harper Lee is a woman who was born in Alabama in the US in 1926. She always tried to consider her book to be a simple love story. In this book, she focused on the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown in Alabama(south part of America).

(Author: Harper Lee)

     The reason why I chose this book was that I am interested in the issues of racism, especially in the US such as African American’s discrimination there, because I learned about it little bit in high school, and wanted to know more details. Moreover, I heard that in autumn term, we are going to learn about ethnics and culture in ARW class, so I thought it is good chance and also opportunity to read this book, and get some knowledge about these.

     “To kill a mockingbird” is a story about the issue of racism which was in 1930’s Alabama. There are two main characters such as an elementary school student Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch in this story. They grow to understand that the world is NOT always fair for people through a black innocent man, Tom’s trial. It was that black man, Tom was caught by his false accusation. So, Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus tried to help Tom to exonerate his wrongfully convicted with feasible evidences which show Tom’s wrongfully convicted. However, black man, Tom determined as guilt in end of the trial, because he is just black (Negro). After the trial, Tom tried to escape from the jail and be killed. Through the trial and also town folks’ behavior, Scout and Jem noticed that the world is not fair for all of people, and they needed to understand it unfortunately at that time, but they keep thinking that we are all same and human being.

     After I read this book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, I could learn a lot of things such as the reality of discrimination in the US at that time and so on. First of all, it is so sad that the trust can be destroyed by social standing like color of skin. It should be rejected actually. Moreover, I think we all have to be fair and reject all of discrimination from all over the world. It seems like there is no more problems between white and black people, however it still remains somewhere in the world. We all have to be fair, because we are all same human being. Furthermore, the court and judge have to be always “Equal before the law”. We all should be taken care equally!