To kill a mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird teaches us about prejudice, hypocrisy, and what it is like to grow up. These three things are apart of everyone’s life and without these three things our world would be completely different to what it is today. This could be a good thing as there would be no discrimination against people of any race and colour as what is seen in the novel with Tom Robinson, but could also be bad living in a world where everyone thinks the same and grows up the same.

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout learns valuable lessons on the evil of prejudice present in her Southern town of Maycomb, on the true nature of courage, and on the dangers of judging others before "...climbing into their skin and walking around in it." Set in the mid 1930s, Scout Finch is a young girl living with her older brother, Jem, and her lawyer father. Being a kid, Scout has the simple duties of a minor, to have fun and to stay out of trouble. But along the way, she also learns many important thi...