Allow To Kill a Mockingbird to continue to be read in high schools
It has recently come to my attention that the novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been banned from a few school boards mainly because of the conflicts it would cause between different races. ... The novel To Kill a Mockingbird portrays how far we’ve gone in society as people who respect human rights. I understand that in high school people might think that we’re not mature enough to understand the story in context and if for any reason a teacher or a student used any of the racist terms out of context that it could cause uproar in the classroom or even in the school. ... Everyone knows now that someone will not be convicted of a crime he/she didn’t commit because of the colour of their skin and this knowledge is what will let the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird become an educational tool to show that we are not who we once were. ... The thing that’s really important about To Kill a Mockingbird is how people understand how the society was in the 1930’s and how To Kill a Mockingbird is realistic in the portrayal of racism in the 1930’s. The main accurate thing that I’ve read in the novel that is realistic is the similarity between two of the cases from the novel, the Tom Robinson case and the Scottsboro case.