To Kill a Mockingbird

                The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is not about trying to kill a bird as I had always thought until I learned it had nothing to do with birds or hunting at all in fourth grade, or something like that, but it's about the coming of age and loss of innocence. As Scout matures she understands the world as it is and not as it used to seem to her, the world is dangerous, and not like she used to think. This means a lot to everybody because everybody goes through the stage of learning what the world really is. We can apply this to our life because it happens to all of us just at different times and when we were young we were quite superstitious about certain events.

                                                                 

                                                                This painting is called Innocence

To Kill a Mockingbird: The Tom Robinson Trial

During the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird most of the thoughts running through my mind involved whether Tom Robinson would win or not.  With the continuation of events I was sure of a win for Tom, but how could that happen since he is a colored?  Atticus specifically mentions that they weren't going to win no matter what he said because a white man's word is higher than a colored man's word.   I think that Atticus is very brave and has to have a lot of courage to be able to go to in front of all these people and defend a colored man.  Tom also had to have a lot of courage to defend himself knowing he would not win even if his story was the truth.

I did not feel bad for Bob Ewells Embarrassment of being easily tricked into helping Tom cause my Atticus.  I felt sorry for Mayella having to lie about Tom because she obviously loved him.  She also had been beaten by her own father and forced to lie about it so that her evil father wouldn't be jailed.  I think that even because Tom lost the debate everybody there learned something from it.  Atticus had showed that colored people were all not that bad and had made the jury discussion as long as it had ever been for a white versus colored trial.

To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus' Parenting

            Atticus has a very common way of teaching, teaching his children by doing other than saying.  Like when Jem destroys Mrs. Dubose's flowers Atticus gives him a quick 30 second talk and pretty much said "go solve the problem you started.  So he taught Jem how to solve his own problems by having him solve it on his own.  Also he has his own special quotes which are metaphorically a way to solve problems, like get into someone's skin and walk around in it for a while.  As in see the world from the other persons point of view, if you have a problem with them.

            I think my mom is pretty cool with things like she would say yes to parties and last minute sleepovers so she is a pretty outgoing person.  But my dad seems kind of unsure and uptight about some things, he usually just says "go ask your mother," or, "as long as I'm not driving."  When my mom would be fine with driving but probably wouldn't want to either.  Whenever I need to make a choice my mom says it's your choice to make your old enough now, like she's being like Atticus and having me learn to make my own choices.  My dad in the same situation would make me do what was right even if I have something that proved that I shouldn't go, like rowing till six thirty even if I had three hours of homework he would make me go. so my mom is pretty outgoing and fine with things, where my dad is kind of the same but a little on the do what is right side.