To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis

At the time of its release, To kill a mockingbird was widely received with harsh criticism and negative reviews, due to its content. 56 years later, the book is still considered unfit for young minds. To kill a mockingbird’s powerful message about rape and racial discrimination is something that every student should learn.

Harper’s lee novel, To kill a mockingbird, talks about two plots; the first being about the mystery of the Radley Place and its inhabitants Boo Radley. This is about the house where someone lives and no one gets out of it. The second one is about the accusation of Thomas

Robinson as a rapist, his trial, and his conviction. Thomas Robinson was wrongly accused of rape, as a scapegoat of sorts.

The plot relating to Thomas Robinson’s

It won the 1961 pulitzer prize and had become a classic of modern American literature. Lee won the presidential medal of freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature, although she had only published one book at that time. Lee also assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book

In cold blood in 1966. Truman took part in To kill a mockingbird as Dill. In 2015, just before

Moniet 2 harper’s death, in February 2016, she published a book called Go set a watchman, It was written in the mid 1950’s, and it was a first draft of To kill a mockingbird.

Containing an outrageous amount of graphic content, it is not surprising that To kill a mockingbird has been banned or challenged a good amount of times through its existence. In

1977 it was challenged and temporarily banned in Eden Valley Minnesota for vulgar language, for using a couple of words such as “damn” and “whore lady”. While it is very clear that this things occurred, it is only written to express how the author feels about a person or thing, The author should be able to express herself/himself freely, of how they feel about something

In many of the book pages, the word nigger comes out, at least in like fifty out of the two hundred eighty pages in total. Many similar cases occurred after this one, in 1985, it was challenged in Kansas City middle school, for its racial content. Again in 1985 it was challenged by its racial comments by some black parents from an elementary school, they found that word very offensive, and thought that young minds should not be learning those type of words. In 1995 it was challenged by some schools in California for its racial content. After all the challenges that have failed to ban To kill a mockingbird, The first successful challenge came on the same year that it was challenged by some schools from California, it was challenged and banned by Southwood High School, for its profanity and racial content. It was not again until

2001 that it was challenged again for its racial content in a high school in Oklahoma, but it failed to ban it. There have been many challenges, but many of them have failed. I personally believe, that there is no reason to ban a book, as I said above, it is the author’s right to express him/herself about something however they want too. We should all be able to write however