To Kill A Mockingbird~ Spoilers, YAY

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I'm pretty sure that whoever reads or has heard of the book To Kill A Mockingbird has wondered why this book has this title. I guess you'll have to read it to find out (MWAHAHA THAT MEANS DON'T READ THE REST OF THIS OR IT'LL SPOIL SOME OF THE BOOK)

Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, her brother Jem, and their father live in Maycomb, Alabama.
)I didn't realize Scout was a girl until her brother told her to stop acting like a girl, and Dill said that she was anyway.) At first I thought, since the book was published in 1960, that that was the time it was plotted in. However, it takes place during a few years of the Great Depression. When I found this out, I finally stopped comparing this to my parents because I thought that this was what it was like for them when they were growing up. At least, I hope it wasn't.

In the book so far, there isn't really anything about the Finch family living in poverty, though, but maybe it's just that the entire town is horribly poor? I don't know. However, once in the book, during school, the teacher screams because a bug crawls out of a boy's hair. She tells him to come back to school when he's taken a bath, but in his family, they only go to school when they feel like it. Once a year, on the first day.
This made me think about how poor people live, especially if you were poor BEFORE something like the Great Depression.

"Back then", or whatever, cursing was like a really bad thing. Nowadays, people curse all the time. But in the 1930's and such, it was considered as a sin or something. Scout starts "cursing" and says "hell", and she gets in trouble and is yelled at. BUT~ people say means things about black people, because back then, nearly everyone. Was. Racist. Really, people call them... bad things. So yeah.

Imagine how much we've progressed since then. Their telephone was like half of a jump rope attached to a tin box. Now, we have these awesome things that look like they could teleport us (iPhones). I mean, imagine that poor boy with soot all over his faec and cooties and lice all in his hair. We take a shower everyday, he probably has once in his life. ( Like that king who only took 5 baths in his lifetime. [EW] ).

By the way, what do y'all think about marriage? or being engaged? You know how, when you're little, (at least for girls) you're all like "I'm going to marry a Prince" and all that, like you're going to marry Aladdin or find your Prince Charming? Isn't that cute, when little kids do that? The whole little skit, like, "We're engaged" whole thing? That's what it's like in this book, at the moment. Scout and Dill are "engaged", but Scout is only eight, and I don't know about Dill. Do you really think that little picture could last forever, or will it be torn apart?

That should totally be the end of a movie trailer.

Love and Rockets, Reed


By the way, if you ever get a gun, shoot as many bluejays as you'd like, just not any mockingbirds. It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.