To Kill A Mockingbird Book Report

The story of To Kill A Mockingbird is about two kids and a dad that lives in Maycomb, Alabama, Scout, Jem and Atticus and they meet a friend Dill the three kids find out the stories of a neighbor named Boo Radley, boo rarely comes out and some aren’t just frightened of Boo but his dad as well but later on in the story and a neighbor, Miss Maudie house burns down and during all of it Boo secretly gives Scout a blanket. Later on in the story Atticus takes Tom Robinson's court case he has been charged with accounts rape and Atticus tries to defend him from the Ewells. But the court case fails the judge convicts Tom though he is obviously innocent and later on in the story Tom decides to run out of prison and he ends up getting shot 17 times. But

that doesn't stop Ewell from being furious with Atticus for trying to defend Tom and making Ewell look like a bad person/ father. So he decides to get revenge by trying to attack Scout and Jem while this happens, someone comes out and fights Ewell and kills Mr. Ewell. The stranger was Boo Radley who Scout now sees as a friend and protector. But Boo gets reported to the sheriff for the act of murdering Mr. Ewell but he turns a blind eye because he doesn't want to put Boo in the limelight like that so Scout ends up walking Boo home.
Black lives matter, is a movement in which people fight for the rights of blacks and to stop racial profiling, many black lives have been lost from the acts of white people.

And they’re here to put to an end to all racial events. They want to change the world because of things that happen to their people for example, the killing of Stephon Clark he was shot 20 times and killed in his own backyard by police officers because they believed he had a weapon in his hand. In reality he had a phone. Now his parents fight for the right to know why they shot him 20 times, why they didn’t shoot him in the arm or leg, why 20 times. He now has left behind his daughters, mother, and wife in this cruel

world.
Empathy can keep one from having prejudice how, you may ask is a good question, black lives matter is really good example to give when talking about empathy and prejudice (Need to work on thesis still)
prejudice can get people to gain empathy by getting people to open up about their experience and letting the people with prejudice walk into their shoes and that’s what we get to experience in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

In this scene one sees how Tom tries to show the people in the room that have prejudice, why he showed empathy for Mayella and trying to show Mr. Gilmer how he too can try and overcome prejudice. “Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em-” - “You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?” (19. 187)this supports my essential question because you can tell that Tom is trying to explain to Mr. Gilmer that he isn’t a bad man but a great guy with a big heart. Tom is trying to show Mr. Gilmer what it takes to have empathy for a girl that seemed to be abused by her father and just wanted someone to hold her when nobody else would. But when Mayella saw that Tom apparently wasn’t the guy for her she decided to turn on him by doing the only thing she could. Anything Tom can do is try and show the lawyer of Mayella that he felt sorry for her, because she was the only one raising all her siblings and doing all the dirty work. But it doesn't work when Mr. Gilmer mocks Tom for thinking that he needed to feel sorry for her when really she should be sorry for Tom for being African American. (Need to add more)now that you’ve seen how people at least try to get others with prejudice to learn something about empathy, and that

there may be more than one person with prejudice and that person is no other than Mr. Ewell himself. We all should take a listen into what Tom said about how he felt sorry for Mayella because we really should. “Mayella may have been keen on Tom, but she certainly isn't blamed for that, nor is there any suggestion that she deserved a beating. Her father is the villain of the piece, both for attacking her and making her testify against Tom.”This supports my essential question because the prejudice comes out of Mr. Ewell when he catches Tom and Mayella. He’s the real reason Tom is in that court house fighting not just himself but for Mayella and the black community he tries showing to Mr. Gilmer why we needs to feel sympathy for Mayella and not just him, that people different race than him get treated poorly as well. That they can get beaten and taken advantage of if they’re doing something wrong. And this is what Tom is trying to show Gilmer and Ewell that we need to show empathy to others that people of color, he knows his life is hard or can be but others are too. And that’s what he’s trying to prove when he says he feels sorry for Mayella and when the writer says that Mayella isn’t one to blame it’s her father.
in this we see how Tom loses it when he tries and explain to people that empathy can be shown to the people with prejudice, but they’re too naive to realize the facts and getting pass with the color of his skin. But then again we don’t know why Tom would’ve tried to run away. Many believe it’s because that just what “they” do and then there’s others that think it’s because of guilt. “ To Maycomb, Tom's death was typical. Typical of a nigger to cut and run. Typical of a nigger's mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw. Funny thing, Atticus Finch might've got him off Scot free, but wait-? Hell no. You know how they are. Easy come, easy go. Just shows you, that Robinson boy was legally married, they say he kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the veneer's mighty thin. N***** always comes out in 'em.” (25.25)This quote supports the fact that some people aren’t willing to understand empathy and having empathy to Tom and to realize that he’s human that all of this wouldn’t have happened Tom wouldn’t have had to say he felt sorry for Mayella in front of a crowd that thinks that was stupid of him to say because he’s black. If Mayella would’ve felt the empathy Tom was trying to give off to her and tried showing her what empathy is and that it’s okay to have empathy for others. Tom would’ve survived through all of this with a not a single bullet in him, but instead Mr. Ewell had to strip Mayella from the meaning of empathy and showed her that Tom was nothing but a African American. To be honest, if any of the three people in that courtroom would’ve shown any sign of remorse all this could’ve gone a different way. And would have proved that empathy can overcome prejudice.
My next, example talks about how achieving justice is more about prejudice than it is about what right and what’s wrong. (Need to add more) “Is it possible to see Atticus's adoption of this defence as a further attempt to question the rule of law? Perhaps that's pushing it too far, but again the novel seems to imply that achieving justice is more about prejudice than it is about simple facts, or right and wrong.” I believe that this answers the main question in this paper, because it’s true Atticus is trying to help and save this man with a false account of rape, but at the same time he’s trying to prevent prejudice because of why he takes the case. He takes the case because he knew no one else would want to take the case, and if anyone else did, they wouldn’t put on a good case or care if Tom was convicted. And Atticus knew this so he had to try and help someone in need. He tried keeping Tom from the people that would’ve taken his case from prejudice. If Atticus would’ve let someone else take it Tom would’ve had to deal with prejudice and not get the empathy he needed when in need of help.
Stephon Clark, a black individual that was reported to have a held a gun, than a crowbar but in reality he was unarmed and in his own backyard. He was shot over 20 times, by police officers and now their family lives a doleful life because they don’t understand why they couldn’t have done some other kind of way to take him down besides shooting him. “They didn’t have to kill him like that, they didn’t have to shoot him that many times, my grandson was 23 years old and now my great grand babies don’t have their daddy. Why didn’t you just shoot him in the arm, shoot him in the leg, send a dog, sent a taser. Why?” -Stephon Clark grandmother It connects to the novel on a emotional level because it shows what Tom Robinson's wife felt, how his family felt. His family probably felt the same way, but maybe it’s different because Tom was running but like Stephon Clark’s grandmother said why did you have to shoot him that many times, why couldn’t they have shot him in the leg or arm. There was so many more protocols they could’ve made but instead they’ve decided to not think anything about empathy, they put holes in these men’s bodies without any remorse. It connects because we get to see the pain the families went through, because of the people with the lack of empathy for others. Without people trying to overcome prejudice and trying to let empathy in these things, could be stopped and put to an end and it’s sad because after how old the book is these things still happen today in 2018. Literature can help us understand the world by taking in the mistakes the characters go through, we can learn from what others have done wrong and change it until it’s right. It’s never going to be completely perfect but it’s that fact that we try and learn from the mistakes. Maybe if more people understood the fact that stereotypes aren’t right and that there are so many different people out in the world that don’t do the things people label them as. If the world could see the rights over the appearance than a lot of things could be different a lot of people would still be alive today. The world could be a tad bit more better than what it is today.