Strength and bravery are the first recognitions that all parents give to their children. When encountering setbacks, do not give up easily, and bravely face all the difficult problems given to this world. When justice and prejudice contradict each other, how do we do it? Maybe justice is always justice, so what about taking discriminatory colored glasses to see?
Kill a mockingbird
Hello everyone, here is "Extreme Reading", meet a good book to open a world, today for you to bring you is the American female writer Harper Lee published in 1960 in the novel "Kill a Mockingbird", from the audience who like this show, please do not skimp on your own small hands, for the editor a little bit of attention to praise it!
There is a saying in the United States that killing a mockingbird is a sin. In the hearts of the American people, the robin is a pistachio that sings to the hearts of the people. Except for a beautiful singing voice, the grain of the man's crops is never destroyed. It will not destroy flowers and plants. In the author's novel, there seems to be a mockingbird-like being—the good black man.
In the 1990s, the Civil War in the United States was over, but in the United States, there was still racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is a kind of prejudice, but also a prejudice in the hearts of white people.
On a train from New York to Boston, Professor Thomas holds a steaming cup of coffee in his hand. Looking through the glasses on his eyes, he sat next to him as if he were a blind man who could not see with his eyes. The old man and Professor Thomas were like old friends who had not seen each other for a long time, and they talked about racial discrimination in the United States on this train. Grandpa told Professor Thomas that Grandpa was a white man from the American South. From an early age, under the influence of his family, he felt that black people were inferior to himself. When I went to school and worked, I never went to and from school with black people, and when I worked, I never ate at the same table as black people.
However, fate is such a teasing person. A car accident left him completely blind in both eyes and could no longer see anything.
He lost both eyes, and he was depressed every day. Finally, with the help of a psychologist, he regained a new perspective on life. The psychologist also became a good friend of the old man, and the two talked about everything, and the old man told all the words in his heart to the psychologist, including his views on black people.
One day, the psychologist suddenly told the boss that he was a black man. At this time, the old man did not have any waves in his heart, and did not have any prejudice because the psychologist was black, but felt that the psychologist was a good person. I also suddenly understood that in this world, good people and bad people have nothing to do with his skin color.
Okay, back to the point, let's take a good look at this book.
Radley was called a "vicious ghost" by the townspeople of Maycombe because he never went out and hadn't even come out of his room for 25 years.
One day, Radley was sitting in the living room with scissors to cut the newspaper, and his father walked past him, and Radley actually took the scissors and plunged it into his father's thigh. The police quickly arrived at the scene to take Radley to the mental hospital. But Radley's father, who knew his son, told the police that Radley was just too nervous, not mentally ill.
Radley's father eventually chained Rad to his bed so that he wouldn't accidentally hurt someone when he went out one day. From then on, the Radley family did not go out, not even to the church. For a time, the animals in the town were often brutally killed, and people speculated that Radley did it. Later, the real murderer appeared, but the murderer fell into the lake and drowned, and people still think that the matter is related to the Radley family.
Dill is an orphan who, during the summer vacation, comes to the small town of Maycombe to play with his aunt, and at her aunt's house he meets two good friends, Jem and Scutter. The three children were attracted to the Radley family and felt that the Radley family was very mysterious. That summer, kids would come up with odd ideas to explore Radley's home. As time went on, the children went to Radley's home and didn't feel mysterious and weird. Instead, in Radley's house, small gifts of all kinds would often be found in the tree hole in the doorway.
One night, the child went to Radley's house to "explore", was discovered by Radley's brother, Jem accidentally broke his pants by the iron net on the way to escape, and had to run home in his underwear.
Passing by Radley's house the next day, he was surprised to find that his pants had been mended and neatly placed in a tree hole. Nor would the children have imagined that in a later danger, Radley would have saved them.
It didn't take long for the quiet days of the town to be stirred up by a case of aggression.
There is a black boy in Maycomb, Tom Robinson, who is very optimistic and helpful.
To make a living, Tom works as a farmer in a white man's home, passing through The House of Juul every day to and from work. Bob Yuel is an alcoholic, with whom he drinks every day, and he has 8 children, the eldest daughter, Mayela Yuel, who is 19 years old. One afternoon, when Tom was returning home from farm work, he passed by Yuel's door, and Mayera asked him to come in to help, and at Yuel's house, Mayera seduced Tom and kissed him. As it turns out, Tom is a family man, so these things are simply impossible, and when Tom pushes Mayela away, he is seen by Bob who has just entered the door, Bob feels that his daughter is very humiliated to seduce a black man, punches Mayera, and threatens Mayella to slander Tom and accuse him of assault.
In order not to make the other whites despise her, Mayera had to listen to her father and take Tom to court, accusing him of violating herself.
Of course, under the influence of that environment, even if there is evidence that Tom did not violate Mayera, even if the testimony of the Yuel family is insufficient. Tom still lost the case and went to jail. Just because Tom is black, he thinks that white people can't make mistakes, and only black people can make mistakes.
In prison, Tom was tortured, and during a time of release, Tom prepared to escape from prison, only to be shot and killed indiscriminately.
In this frame-up case, Jem and Scott's father, Addiks, are Tom's defense lawyers. He didn't think of so-called racial discrimination, and Atticus felt that all people were equal. He also defended Tom with all his might.
In the process of defending, Atticus was also controversial, and even Jem was also criticized, and once, Mrs. Dubos in the town insulted the Atticus family for Tom's case, and Jem could not stand it anymore and destroyed Mrs. Dubos's flowers.
Atticus asks Jem to make amends for Mrs. Dubos, but Mrs. Dubos asks Jem to read to her every afternoon. In the process of reading, he did not give up insulting Atticus. From time to time, he also ridiculed Jem with harsh words. The two children did not understand why everyone in the town was prejudiced against Tom and why their father still wanted to help Tom. Atticus told them that he wanted them to see what true bravery was, rather than mistakenly believing that a man with a gun in his hand was bravery.
Although Bob Yuell won, in court, Atticus was so vocal about his accusation that he became angry and took a shot at the two children. Jem broke his arm during the fight, at which point a black shadow burst out and rescued the two children. When the police arrived at the scene, they found Bob dead. In the end, the police said that No one was responsible for Yuel's death, and that Yuel had fallen on his own knife.
Tom was not like a robin and had never done anything bad. But they are responsible for false accusations. The jury in court did not look like a hunter with a shotgun. A weapon made of racial discrimination shoots Tom, a symbol of the robin.
Tom died of racial discrimination, of the ignorance of the jury.
In education, Atticus teaches children how to be truly brave and what is true tutoring. Teach children tolerance and forgiveness. Teach them how to judge a thing about whether it is right or wrong.
Sometimes, our eyes are deceitful, and we should not judge anyone by "seeing is believing". Instead, look with your heart, feel everything in this world with your heart.