"Kill a Mockingbird" is from the perspective of children, narrating the prejudice and racial discrimination that occur around them.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > one or two mockingbirds: freaks and blacks</h1>
Lawyer Atticus lives alone in the town with his son Jem and daughter Scout after his wife's death.
On their way to school in Jem and Scout, passing by a house where radley, a freak, the two of them heard a lot of legends about freaks, both curious and frightened.
It is rumored that the strange man named Arthur Radley was locked up in his father's home because of his mistakes when he was a child, and no one has ever seen him out of the house since, for more than a decade.
Dear friends Go to this town every year for summer vacations, and they play together every day, and when they hear legends about strange people, Dill is very curious.
So Dill and Jem plan to hang a letter with a fishing rod in an attempt to pass it through the window of the strange man's house, inviting the strange man Radley out to play with them. Only to be seen and stopped by father Atticus.
Later, they wrote and directed their own plays about the strange man Radley in the courtyard.
As summer vacation drew to a close, Dill and Jem planned to turn over the weirdo's house and take a look at Radley. Just after entering the courtyard, he was discovered by old Radley, who fired a shot into the sky to intimidate the intruders.
Jem and the three of them quickly escaped out of the courtyard.
Atticus, knowing the children's curiosity about the freak Radley, warns them, "Stop torturing that man." ”
Atticus told them that what Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to get out of the house, he would come out. If he wants to stay out of the house behind closed doors, he also has the right to stay in the house and avoid children who like to get to the bottom of the matter.
Summer vacation passed quickly, the children were busy with school again, and there was little time to think about the strange Radley.
While the children were busy attending class, Atticus got into trouble: a black man was accused of raping his daughter by a white father, and Atticus was asked by a judge to be a black man's defender.
Although Atticus could refuse, he resolutely accepted the job, because Atticus insisted on justice and equality in his heart, and if he refused, he would not be eligible to educate two children.
Ever since Atticus accepted the job of defending blacks, the whites of the town began to slander and insult Atticus, even saying in front of Scout and Jem that their father was "a sympathetic black man."
Scut clenched his fists, but the father told the children to calm down and endure these so-called insults.
By the summer of the following year, the trial of the Black Man was held.
On that day, the courtroom was crowded with people from the town, blacks, whites, Scutt, Jem and Deere, and black people crowding the second-floor stands.
The lawyers on both sides of the court did not have the same verbal battle as expected, but only summoned witnesses for questioning.
The plaintiff, the Yuell family, is a local slacker who receives relief money and has a bad reputation. He claimed to have witnessed Robinson, a black man, raping his daughter.
But Yuell and his daughter's narrative is clearly flawed, even the teenage Jem can see it.
Atticus then questioned the defendant, and Robinson's account differed greatly from the plaintiff's testimony.
The biggest evidence of Robinson's innocence was his disabled left hand, and the plaintiff's testimony said that Robinson injured Yuel's daughter in the right eye, and that yuell himself was left-handed.
The truth is clear.
But in the end, the jury, after several hours of discussion, found Robinson, a black man, guilty.
The reason is simple: in the case of whites versus blacks, blacks have never won.
Although Atticus had long known that victory was almost impossible, he tried his best to make the defense the best he could.
After the verdict was pronounced, Jem, who thought Atticus had won, couldn't help but cry.
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<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > two, kill a mockingbird, save a robin</h1>
When Jem began to learn to shoot, his father Atticus told him not to shoot robins, "Killing a robin is a crime."
Because robins just hum beautiful music for people to enjoy, they don't do anything bad. They don't eat the flowers, fruits and vegetables grown in people's yards, nor do they nest in the barn, they just sing for us. So killing a robin is a crime.
In his court account, Robinson, a black man, would pass by Yuel's house every day, and each time Yuel's daughter would ask Robinson to come into the house to help with some work, such as chopping firewood and moving boxes.
Robinson, an honest man, would help her every time, because he felt that she was lonely, and none of her siblings would help her, and even some sympathy for her.
The last time, she called Robinson into the house, closed the door and tried to have sex with him, Robinson had a wife and children, refused her and wanted to leave, but was witnessed by Yuel's father. Hampered by his black identity, Robinson had to flee the scene.
In the end, Robinson, who did nothing bad, was found guilty of racial discrimination that was deeply hidden in people's hearts, and was clearly found guilty of insufficient evidence.
Eventually, Robinson tried to escape while letting loose in prison, but was shot and killed by the prison guards.
The odd man Radley likes to stay at home, almost no one has seen him out of the house, and there are terrible rumors about him in the town, a terrifying and curious monster in the eyes of children.
But he will quietly put down the gifts he gave to Jem and Scout on the way to school;
He would blanket Scout, who was standing on the side of the road, when his neighbor's house was on fire in winter;
He will rescue Scott and Jem when they are attacked by a resentful Yur.
Robinson, the Negro, and Radley the Freak did nothing bad, like two mockingbirds.
Yuel was the culprit who killed Robinson' robinson, and he was the guilty man.
When he attacks Scout and Jem because of his resentment towards Atticus, Radley comes to his aid and accidentally kills Yuel in the dark.
Atticus wanted to find the guilty at a fair trial, and that's what he'd been doing. But the sheriff insisted that Yuel had accidentally stabbed himself to death in the dark.
After a heated argument between the two, Atticus agreed with the sheriff's statement.
They saved a robin.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, the robin may die, but the song will live on</h1>
Atticus firmly believes that most people are kind, as long as they think from the perspective of others, they will understand what the other party is doing, so in the book, Atticus treats anyone with a smile.
Atticus has always treated everyone equally, whether black, white or so-called freaks, and has always adhered to this philosophy of educating two children.
It was under Atticus's education that Jem would cry in the face of the convicted Robinson, and Scout would say things like, "I think the world has only the right people, and that's people."
In the American context of the 1920s and 1930s, white racial discrimination against blacks was deeply rooted, but Atticus was against this racial discrimination.
It was this kind of racism that killed Robinson, a black man who hadn't done anything bad.
A robin symbolizing justice, equality, and goodness may die, but it is with someone like Addicks that the robin's song never goes away.
After killing an innocent robin, there are thousands of them in the world.
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