"To Kill a Mockingbird"

Mockingbirds are birds that sing for the pleasure of others and themselves and they do no harm. In the play, "To kill a mockingbird", i have learned several things.

I've learned that people should not be judged because of their skin colour, their skin colour does not show if a person is good or bad, their skin colour does not show if a person is just or unjust, their skin colour shows nothing except where they come from. Back then, in 1930, people were discriminated because of their skin colour and that just because 2 white liars said so, a black could be sentenced to death for raping a person. Tom Robinson has been accused of rape by 2 white people. He was sentenced to jail just because 2 white people lied. Why? Because the people that made up the jury in the court at that time were mostly racist white humans, it just didn't make sense to them that black people could win the case because they were innocent. They were biased, just because Tom Robinson was a person in darker skin.

I have also learned that just because people says a person is bad, it doesn't necessarily mean he really is. Boo Radley was rumoured to have stabbed his father's thigh with a pair of scissors and that he came out at night to eat cats and squirrels and all the children believed these rumours. However, Boo Radley begins leaving presents like gum and coins for Dill and Scout and later in the story, he saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell. From this, Scout (and i) learns that once you get to know a person, most of the time they are good and kind.

The third thing i have learned is not to judge a book by it's cover. Because the jury judged Tom Robinson by his skin, they were unjust. Because Boo Radley apparently stabbed his father, people discriminated against him. Because Mrs Dubose seemed mean and hateful, Jem and Scout hated her. In actual truth, Mrs Dubose seemed hateful because she was in excruciating pain as she was a brave woman and refused to consume morphine which will become an addiction. Jem and Scout was told about this after Mrs. Dubose's death and they eventually understood not to just others by their skin.

I really enjoyed this play as it was very meaningful and i learned alot from it. I really look forward to watching other plays in the future.