To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

I don’t know where to begin. This book is extraordinary. It touched me on so many levels. The story centers on deep rooted racism seen through the eyes of child, it is written in the voice of a very wise nine-year-old girl known as Scout. The story takes place around the 1930s in a small town in the Deep South and touches on the law, justice, the jury, racism and rape, how children see the world they live in and what they are taught by family and the people they come in contact with.

After reading this book, unfortunately I feel that things have not changed much when it comes to racism. I feel that no one group is hated and dehumanized more than the black man. In chapter 26, Scout makes an observation. How can it be that her teacher hates Hitler and what he is doing to the Jews, but see nothing wrong with the way they treat Negros in America.