It s a crime to kill a mocking bird
... The central theme to Harpers Lee’s novel is “It’s a crime to kill a mocking bird”, meaning that it is wrong to be prejudice towards someone that has committed no crime. ... She is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and based the book on events that actually occurred in her childhood, but in a later interview insisted that it did not resemble her childhood. ... The novel was set in the depression of the 1930’s, where racism occurred. ... “It’s a crime to kill a mocking bird” It is wrong to be prejudice towards an innocent person. Prejudice is a central theme in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... Those who also associated with blacks were considered inferior much like the example in Harper Lee’s novel "Your fathers [Atticus] no better than the niggers and trash he works for! ... Atticus suffered the same social prejudice that black people received, only because he was a lawyer, who affiliated with a black defendant’s case. ... In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird it may seem there is just racial prejudice, but if we dive deeper we discover highlighted discreet prejudice. The social prejudice, in this case was against the Cunningham’s. The Cunningham’s are described as a poor family with not much money or land. ... ") (1988 Pg 27) The same racial and social prejudice revealed in To Kill a Mockingbird can be related to Asylum seeker and refugees in Australia, today.