To kill a mockingbird, 3d entry.
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I have now read the whole book: to kill a mocking bird, written by Harper Lee and first published 1989.
I think that the book was quite good, but it was according to me really slow the first 120 pages and that made me not so interested in reading it but I continued and it became a pretty good story. I believe that the best and most interesting part about this story is when they are in court and Atticus is defending Tom Robinson on pages 183-226.
The author (Harper Lee) used a not so formal language when it came to dialogues. This was because she wrote how everything pronounces, for example when Mayella says: ”I knew Mr Tate was pullin’ me up offa the floor and leadin’ me to the water bucket”, on page 199. But according to me it was smart of her to write just like they talk in Alabama and it made me, personally ”feel” the book more and it became more like I was in Alabama. I also think that it made the story a little bit cosy, because otherwise she as a writer wouldn’t ”invite” us to Alabama while reading it. And I think it was smart of her.
I think that this story’s conflict is that people judge other people before knowing why, or for what they ”are”, I believe that both Tom and Boo are ”Mockingbirds” just like I published in my second entry. And I think just like I wrote then that it’s wrong to damage something that is so pure and beautiful and that haven’t done any harm to you.
Jem said on page 249 that there lives four types of folks in Maycomb: ”There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.”
He also connected every type: ” -our kind of folks don’t like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don’t like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the coloured folks”. According to me shows this how bad everybody are in loving other people.
Atticus who is a lawyer has seen a lot of things in his work and also his life. I think that one thing why he sees all the good things in other people is partly depending on his job. I believe it’s that way, because he has seen so much and he is one of those who actually figured out that everybody are alike and that everybody makes mistakes. I don’t think this is connected to Tom Robinson's case, while I think that was wrong that he got killed, but it’s Atticus’ work and he couldn’t do anything because it was so back then, and back then couldn’t anyone break or change any rules for example on pages 242-243 when Atticus and Jem are talking about how wrong it is if the judges declare Tom as guilty and Jem want to change the law about capital punishments and Atticus answered: ”You’d be surprised how hard that’d be. I won’t live to see the law changed, and if you live to see it you’ll be an old man”.
- ”It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (page 99)
I started from this sentence to describe what I thought was the book’s meaning, and I came up with that it’s a sin to kill something harmless like a mockingbird who is here on earth to sing for us and make music for us to enjoy. I think that Harper Lee wanted us to figure out which character/characters who were mockingbirds, and I believe it was Tom and Boo(Arthur) and I also concluded that they both were mistreated though Tom Robinson were innocent and Boo who they till the end understood that he didn’t wanted to come out.
