To Kill a Mockingbird book review by Kavya

 Book review 

by Kavya Chunduru

The book, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is about two siblings, Scout and Jem Finch and their childhood. At this point in time racism was at one of its all time highs in America. Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus, was a lawyer. There was a black man in town that was accused of rape from a white woman even though he didn’t rape her. Atticus agreed to defend the man accused even though he knew that there was no chance of the man winning because of the racism in the town. The trial ends with the man being found guilty, but Atticus points out to his children that he made a difference because the jury spent hours in the room debating over the case instead of throwing the case out and saying that he was guilty immediately. 

I think this book was a good book. The author showed the injustices that people of color had to face before the Civil Right which I think that not many books show. My favorite scene in this book would be a scene when there was a rabid dog on the streets. Atticus rushes home from the hospital with the town sheriff and tells the sheriff to shoot the dog. The sheriff tells Atticus that he’s a better shooter than himself. Atticus shoots the dog perfectly in between the eyes. This is my favorite scene because it shows a little bit of what Atticus was in the past and how he didn’t want his children to know about his hunting career. My favorite character in the book was Atticus because I thought that he was a person who knew what he was doing and he wasn’t afraid to stand up for the weak. Overall, I would rate this book a ⅘ stars because I liked the overall book but it was really boring up to the courtroom scene.