To Kill a Mockingbird Notes/Revision

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The novel to kill a mockingbird is about a black man accused of raping a white woman. Then Atticus Finch (he is a lawyer), he tries to help the black man (Tom Robinson) in court. But since the court and the folk in the court were still very racists, no had believed his side of the story. They had though that the white woman (Mayella Ewell) was the victim of this story. But in reality it was Tom Robinson, he was found guality.

There are some main key themes in the book:

Racial Segreation: Where white and black folk were seperated, they had different bathrooms, different seats on a bus and black children weren't allowed to go to school with white children. Since becuase of that, most black children didn't know how to read or how to write.

Prejudice: There are many differen examples of prejudice in to kill a mockingbird, was how the Tom Robinson's trial went. The white folk hadn't listened to Tom's side of the story. They had though Mayella was the only victim in this situation. Another example was how they had treated Boo Radley. They had thought of him as a monster and that you should stay away from him. There were many rumours that had been made up about Boo as well. Some of these were; he would only eat cats and other rodients or that he would come to your window side and stare at you. Since these rumours had been made up, most of the towns folk of Maycomb had stayed away from Boo and from the Radley house.

Innocence: The innocence of the children, they didn't understand all of what was being said at the trial. They hadn't always understood why Atticus was getting so upset about the trial. Dill represents innocence in the novel and Scout didn't always understand as she was still a child.

Courage: The courage of Boo Radley, he went out of his way to go and save Scout and Jem when Bob Ewell was trying to attack them. Boo had saved Scout from being stabbed from Mr Ewell. Mr Heck Tate later stands up for Boo and had said that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife. He had wanted Boo to live in peace without having to go to court.

Family life: The connection between Scout and Jem, this is really tested, as Jem gets older he doesn't want to be seen as much with Scout anymore. When he moved up to the senior school, it was harder for Scout to see Jem.

They had also been forced to mature too quickly which meant they had a loss of innocence.