To Kill A Mockingbird

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
I. Introduction
A. Background of the Novel
- The novel was composed by Harper Lee and was distributed in 1960. The novel's class
is Southern gotic. The Southern Gothic centers on bizarre subjects and incorporates dim and suspenseful
components. He composed the novel within the time of the Awesome Sadness. She was motivated to composed
the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" since of the involvement she had experienced when she was a kid. Harper Lee
concepts the story with his claim encounters when she was a kid.
B. Summary
- The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is basically a particular approximately developing up
underneath fabulous occurrences within the 1930s inside the Southern Joined together States. The story covers a
span of three years, all through which the most characters undergo significant alterations. Scout Finch lives in
conjunction with her brother Jem and their father Atticus interior the invented city of Maycomb, Alabama.
Maycomb may be a little, near-knit town, and each family has its social station depending on wherein they live,
who their guardians are, and the way long their predecessors have lived in Maycomb. A widower, Atticus raises
his kids by means of himself, with the assist of compassionate buddies and a dark maid named Calpurnia. Scout
and Jem nearly impulses secure the complexities and plots in their community and town. The only neighbor who
confuses them is the secretive Arthur Radley, nicknamed Boo, who by no impliescomes open air. When Dill,
another neighbor's nephew, begins investing summers in Maycomb, the 3 children start an obsessive adventure.
As the story goes, Scout and Jem’s life became complicated when Scout’s father, Atticus, became
the lawyer for the wrongfully accused man, Tom. Scout and Jem’s life was threatened by Ewell. One night, the
two have been stalked by Ewell who was at that time, drunk and angry. Scout saw a silhoutte of a man that helped
the both of them. The Sherrif saw Ewell has been stabbed by a knife but covered it that Ewell just fell inhis own
knife.
II. Analysis
A. Setting
- the novel started in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. The setting help developing the story
because that's where all take place when a woman falsely accused one of the town's black resident. The setting
of the novel became a very big part on developing the story especially the characteristics of the community
members.
B. Characterization
-The characters in the story are had the perfect description of who they really are in the story.
These characters are very much like non-fictious characters. They are real. From the characteristics, to their
actions. Unlike other novels, the characters in this novel showed qualities that a real person has.
C. Conflict
- The conflict of the novel started when Atticus accepted Tom Robinson’s alleged rape case. The
community was known for being racist that’s why Tom—a black man, against Bob and Mayella Ewell has a
small chance of having a fair trial. The conflict made Bob Ewell threaten Atticus. He also planned to kill Scout
and Jem after Tom died.
D. Point of View
- The point of view used in the novel was a First-person POV. The POV was shown as Scout
narrates the story whilst also being the protagonist. But, Scout’s point of view was narrated as a six-year old
child. The narration is an unreliable one. The point of view is an effective one, but I still want to know the story
on another person’s point of view to get a better understanding of what really happened.
E. Theme
- We ought to continuously be beyond any doubt that anything color we had, we ought to regard each
other and allow everybody uniformity since we are all the same and we all merit a correspondence that we
required. In the novel we will see that the case there's prejudice since of the white juries that charged dark man
to a assault that he doesn't do.
III. Reflection
- The novel made me confused, mad, and sad. The novel gave me so many emotions that I cannot
get a hold of it anymore. It left many confusing questions in my mind. The novel taught me that most of us suffers
the same problem, and that is racism. I felt sad because up until this time, we are still experiencing racism. Racism
is a problem that’ll never end, it has been something that people inherited from their roots, it’s hard to remove
that now. There was a point in the novel that I got confused. Many questions in my mind was left un-answered.
How and why Tom died? I felt very disappointed when Tom and Atticus lost the case.
IV. Conclusion
- All in all, the novel and the author wanted us to realize that racism is a big problem. Racism is
something that can ruin a very good thing. Racism is something that can affect a human’s psychological and
mental welk-being. Racism must be stopped. Racism must end. Equality must prevail. Equal opportunities and
equal judgements must be given to everyone. We must see each other as equal beings. Nobody must be superior
or inferior to us because we are all created equally.
This novel taught me life lessons that I’ll surely treasure. Lessons that’ll help me grow into a
beautiful human being. With that, I do recommend this novel to everyone. Not just my fellow students but to
everyone. Because everyone needs to be enlightened by the words and the mysteries of this novel holds.

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