You'd better read this book when you're not involved in the world as a child, because it's about being human. It's not too late to read this book after you've experienced the world, because it's about education. The book is called To Kill a Mockingbird.
In the course of the development of American history, racism is a problem that must be asked, it is a characteristic of southern American society, and it is a topic that runs through the social development of the southern United States. When it comes to racial discrimination in the southern United States, many people have a more arbitrary perception that racism is white people ruling society, black people obeying white people, and white people oppressing black people. In fact, racism cannot be understood only at the level of definition, it is a complex social problem, mixed with deep-rooted extreme national sentiments.
Slavery was later abolished, and white feelings toward blacks became more mixed. On the one hand, they needed an African-American workforce financially, and some whites had an appreciation for certain skills of African Americans, a sentiment that was evident in the relationship between the Finchers and Caponi. In this context, the white and African cultures of the South are integrated. But on the other hand, the better personal feelings of some white masters and African American servants do not change the mainstream value status of African Americans who are discriminated against, such as Tom Robinson, a black man in the book, who was framed by Yule, but the jury did not give a public trial, which eventually led to Tom being shot and killed in prison.
In the context of the time, To Kill a Mockingbird doesn't seem entirely applicable to modern society, but it doesn't change the established fact that it's one of the greatest American novels.
We fought all the way, not to change the world, but not to let the world change us.
If Atticus had just told his children to be good and fight evil, he wouldn't have been a good father to me. In my opinion, the most correct thing he did was that he led the children through the complex, dirty and dirty world and still steadfastly told them to be good and righteous. Tom, a black youth, was falsely accused of raping the white girl Mayer Rayour, and this incident was widely spread in the racially racist town of Maycomb at that time, and the white residents who discriminated against blacks rightfully believed that Tom's rape was an established fact, but Atticus Fincher resolutely stood up to defend Tom. Atticus said: "In the world we live in, there is always something that makes people lose their minds. Even if they try to be fair, it backfires. In our courtroom, when the opposing parties are a white man and a black man, the white man always wins. These things are ugly, but real life is like that. Atticus was well aware of the dark side of this society, but when he stood in court as Tom's defender, he firmly told everyone present: "In this country, there is a way to make all men equal, there is a social institution that makes beggars equal to Rockefeller, fools equal to Einstein, and ignorant people equal to the president of any university." Such an institution, gentlemen, is the Tribunal. He hated social injustice, but was extremely confident in the future of the country's justice system and the sense of justice in people's hearts. This is what Romain Rolland called "heroism", that is, to see the truth of life and still love life.
As a lawyer, Atticus should be more aware of the injustices in this society than the average person, but he chooses to fight, and he fights with the belief that he will lose. As he said, "Don't make the mistake of thinking that a man with a gun in his hand is brave." Courage is knowing you are going to lose before you even start, but you still have to do it and follow through to it no matter what. ”
As a father, he is using his insistence to tell his children that you have to have your own standards, and even if there are too many things in this world that are powerful enough to change you, you should not change yourself easily. The world is devastated and too many people choose to deceive themselves in order to live "correctly" like most people, the question is is it right to be like others? You have to keep learning, feeling and assimilating, and using your thoughts to draw a line for your actions. Even if one day you become the person you are referring to, you have to persevere, because what you insist on will eventually make your personality.
Finally, let's end with a sentence from the book. "It doesn't matter how many bluebirds you shoot, but remember, killing a robin is a sin."