Actually, prejudice is more terrible than ignorance.
You can also learn from ignorance, and you can ask for advice with humility, but once you have prejudice, you will blind a person's eyes and reason, ignore the truth of objective facts, and even destroy innocent lives.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about prejudice.
This story happened in the early 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama, in the southern United States. Adick Finch, a white lawyer, lives with his two children, who lost their mother when they were young. He told the children not to shoot the robin because it won't hurt human beings.
A man named Tom? Robinson's black man was falsely accused of rape. Adix. Although Finch has evidence that Tom is not a rapist, he can't stop the jury from finding Tom guilty. This reckless crime led to Tom's death under the gun.
From a brand-new perspective of children, the author truly shows the present situation of life in southern society and expresses her moral and humanistic concern for society and life.
Author Harper? Li is a contemporary American woman writer. The masterpiece is To Kill a Mockingbird. In 2007, she was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the President of the United States in recognition of her achievements in literature.
As one of the most popular novels in history, this book won the Pulitzer Prize, was translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and was once made into a popular movie.
Today we share three important contents of this book: Tom died of terrible prejudice; We all misunderstood Arthur; Addicks was a great father.
Tom died of terrible prejudice.
Tom is a polite and strong black man. He is often called into the yard by the white girl Maiella ewell to help with housework, such as chopping wood and fetching water.
Ewell's family has a very bad opinion in the town. Mayella's father Bob is a villain and scoundrel that everyone hates. No one else wants to talk to their families.
One day, Maiella put all his brothers and sisters aside and tried to get close to Tom. Tom is desperate to escape. Bob took Tom to court, claiming that Tom had beaten and violated his daughter.
The court appointed Adix to defend Tom. When the white people in the town learned about it, they thought that Addicks defended the black people. One night, Addicks was besieged by a gang of thugs. Fortunately, the children came to dissuade everyone.
On the day of the trial, almost the whole town came to attend. Both whites and blacks attach great importance to the outcome of this case.
Addicks showed the truth of Tom's innocence to jurors and citizens with his professional ability. But in the end, the jury found Tom guilty.
Desperate Tom tried to escape from prison and was killed. Powell won the lawsuit, lost his reputation and held a grudge, waiting for an opportunity to get back at Judge Addicks who sympathized with Tom and Tom's wife.
In 1930s, slavery was abolished in the United States for more than 100 years, but the racism intertwined by blood and history still cannot be shaken.
Especially in southern society, black skin is the original sin. Black people are unclean and evil in the eyes of arrogant white people. This prejudice is deeply rooted.
Although Tom's reputation is widely known in the town, although Addicks tried his best to make a wonderful defense and the case was clear, Tom's guilty verdict was expected because white people were qualified to be members of the jury.
So Addicks said that Tom was desperate when he was caught.
Tom, a kind and harmless "robin", was killed for his kindness.
The bad prejudice of racism made the good townspeople lose their rationality, which led to Tom's tragic ending.
We all misunderstood Arthur.
When Arthur Radley was a teenager, he got mixed up with no three no four people and was almost sent to work-study school because of practical jokes.
Old Radley assured the judge that he would be responsible for supervision and would not let Arthur get into trouble again.
Since then, the door of Radley's house has been locked, and Arthur has been kept at home for more than ten years. After the death of old Radley, Arthur continued to be imprisoned at home by his brother.
Scoot, his brother Jim and his good friend Dill are all curious and afraid of this strange neighbor.
The adults in the town say that an evil ghost lives in this house. Many bad things happened in this town were done by this ghost.
The more rumors, the more interested the children are in this strange man.
The children made provocative actions several times to find out what this weirdo is. For example, peeping at him through the shutters and delivering letters to him with a fishing rod failed.
Only when Jim took back the trousers that were cut when the stranger ran away in a hurry, he found that the trousers had been mended.
On the snowy night when Miss Modi's house burned down, the cool running in the snow made Arthur cover an extra blanket.
In the tree hole in front of strangers, their little toys can often be found.
When the children asked their father about the Radleys, Addicks's only answer was: You mind your own business and let the Radleys mind their own business. This is their right.
One night, when Bob got back at Scott and Jim, Arthur fought desperately with Bob and saved his brother and sister. After confirming the safety of his brothers and sisters, Arthur asked Kupao to take him home.
Scooby-doo never saw him again.
In fact, Arthur has never been a mysterious madman in sensational rumors. On the contrary, he is full of sense of justice and compassion. He is like the incarnation of an angel, always silently guarding Scoot and Jim.
This "robin" was brutally imprisoned by her biological father for more than ten years. The prejudice and speculation of the town residents demonized him. Everyone misunderstood him.
Addicks was a great father.
Scoot's mother died when she was two years old. She lives happily and confidently with her brother Jim, who is six years older than her, and is taken care of by her father Addicks and the black maid Ka Glacia.
On the first day of school, Scoot made the teacher very angry, because she liked reading and reading newspapers with her father since she was a child, and her reading ability was amazing, which did not meet the requirements of the educational reform carried out by the school. The teacher told her to stop reading her father's words.
Kupao told his father angrily that he would not go to school in the future. Her father told her to learn to compromise and take a step back. They still read books and newspapers as before, but they don't tell the teacher.
In this way, Addicks taught children to solve problems through compromise.
Aunt Alexandra doesn't think Scoot is a girl. She should be trained to be a decent lady, and her manners should conform to her family's identity. But the father acquiesced in Scoot's behavior and thought that the cultivation of children should conform to nature.
Addicks insisted on defending the black Tom and was insulted and attacked by the white people in the town. Scoot asked him why he defended blacks.
Addicks replied that only by setting an example and seeking judicial justice can he become a role model for children.
A mad dog appeared in the town and Addicks was killed. Only then did the children know that their father, who was not interested in guns at all, was a dead shot.
Addicks once killed a robin when he was young, and he regretted it very much. He never picked up a shotgun again. Because robins don't do bad things, they just sing.
In the eyes of the children, Mrs Dubos is a vicious old woman, but Eddie is still very polite to her. After Mrs. Dubos's death, Addicks told the children that she gave up morphine before her death and passed away cleanly. She is a brave and respectable lady.
Evil Bob ran after Jim. After a chaotic fight, Bob was stabbed in the body and died.
Addicks thought it was Jim's manslaughter and hoped his son would face the consequences. Although the idea made his heart ache, he didn't want to cover up the truth.
Addicks said to Sheriff Tate, "In this world, Jim looks at me first, and then at others. I've been trying to live an honest life. Look him in the eye. If I acquiesce in such a thing, I will never look him in the eye again. If so, I will know that I have lost him forever. I don't want to lose him, because they are all I have.
Finally, the sheriff restored the truth of the scene and confirmed that Bob died by his own sword. Addicks was relieved.
In the eyes of children, father is a towering tree.
Addicks not only gave warm shelter to children, but also adhered to the Christian spirit of equality and fraternity, pursued fairness and justice, and stood up against stubborn prejudice by himself, setting the best example for children.
The interpretation of this book is over. This story tells us that there are many kind and innocent people in life who behave differently from ordinary people because of their identity, race, physical illness and other reasons, but when we know them well enough, we will find that most of them are kind and friendly.
We should accept and tolerate them with warmth and love, instead of speculating and hurting them with colored glasses, just like To Kill a Mockingbird.
As Addicks said in his book: You can never really know a person unless you put on his shoes and walk around like him.
Prejudice is more terrible than ignorance. Only by eliminating prejudice can we see the truth.