What is TKAM about?
This book is about a young girl named Scout and her older brother Jem. They live in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama, where everybody knows everybody. The town from the outside looks like the perfect southern town, but from the inside, things aren't so great. There is terrible racism, and to top it off, there is a crazy house with an innocent psycho named Boo Radley right in town. Scout and Jem grow up next to this house, and Boo gets to watch the children grow up and play every day and falls in love with their innocence. Until one summer when everything changes. Their father, Atticus, who is a criminal defense lawyer, gets offered to hello with a case that he can't morally pass up. A young black man named Tom is accused of raping a white girl named Mayella. In this town, Atticus knows that the odds are strongly against him winning, but he doesn't want to see this man who did nothing to anybody get put to death because of a capital crime that he did not commit. The two stories of two innocent men who are wrongly given the tittle of bad people are intertwined in an amazing in an amazing book that you will never forget. "You can kill as many blue jays as you want, but don't forget, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Why should you read this book?
I think people should read this book because it give's you a good idea of how racism was and how it was handled. This book also shows how the blacks were treated even after they were considered free. You can relate things like this to now, because people are still treated poorly because of their skin color. I also think people should read this because it's a great example of American literature. Another reason people should read this is because it's a great book and it exposes you to a different writing style that you may not have read before. This book is also a simple love story as Harper Lee once described it as. I think all young readers should read this because you can get a lot from this book from a history lesson on racism to a book that keeps you on edge and you can't set it down until you've read it cover to cover..