Is To Kill A Mockingbird Still Relevant?

Black Tuesday, the beginning of the Great Depression, was on October 29th, that’s the day after my birthday. Is To Kill A Mockingbird Still relevant? Some schools and parents have said no, some say that yes, it still is relevant. They want to determine if the schools should keep allowing students to read the novel.This essay will elucidate the subject based on the positives and negatives. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is still relevant because it’s informative and the many lessons we can still learn.

To Kill A Mockingbird is considered irrelevant by some groups. While it is true that most of the events can still happen, some events like lynching and the trial’s evidence would have been almost completely different. With the deterioration of mobs and increasing of police force lynching wouldn’t take place as much. With all of this world’s advanced and proficient sciences and technology, the authorities would have found irrefutable evidence from the crime scene and conveniently found enough evidence to convict the proper offender. The use of derogatory, belittling, and slanderous terms used are not used as frequently and African Americans are not blamed first for everything. This doesn’t affect completely, how informative the novel is.

To Kill A Mockingbird is still relevant because of how informative it is.

The novel is informative because it shows what life was like down in the south. It souths how court trials were settle back then, not by evidence but by one man’s word to another’s. The book shows how prejudice was very strong back then. It shows that the hatred of those who are different was still standing strong. The novel shows what a southern family’s life was like, how tedious and problematic it was growing up as a girl with a father who defended the people most groups hated and despised. This novel later goes on to teach the reader many

lessons.
To Kill A Mockingbird is still relevant because the novel can teach the readers many lessons. The lessons are: be who one wants, not who others want, It’s okay to fail others, but not okay to fail oneself, and one would have to walk a mile in someone’s shoes to understand what they’ve been through. Scout is constantly reminded and reprimanded because she isn’t lady-like, graceful, and elegant. Atticus has failed many of his friends and family in their eyes because he is defending an African American, but he still tried on the case because he wouldn’t respect himself anymore if he didn’t try his best. Throughout the novel the reader is reminded that one has to walk a mile in someone’s shoe to understand what they’ve suffered through. Many individuals are mad at Atticus because, even though he was forced to defend Tom Robinson, that he is actually trying his hardest to win the case.
The relevance of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper L is still adequate because it is informative and teaches the reader many lessons. Though some of the information and events are outdated, most of them can still be applied contemporarily. The many lessons the reader learns will always be relevant to modern history. The many events, information, and lessons can be applied to one’s normal life and benefit them. The narrator of the novel, Scout Finch, is mostly told through her as a child and adult so it gives the reader a very different view on things.