Theme: Extended

I haven't read many books that actually have morals and themes. Sure I read Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, but they never really had anything to say that made any sense. That is why I was very excited to pick up this novel at the beginning of summer. I have heard it was a very good book and had many elements to it that looked into the insight on life, but I never knew that it could speak to me as an individual. The one theme that I felt really related to me was growing up and loss of innocents.

My family has not been the most fortunate. When I was just 7 years old, we lost a very nice house, that's when we moved to Olympia, but then on it has been pretty hard for us. only 4 years later, my parents got a divorce, and I had to grow up really fast and look out after my little brother. It has leveled out by now and we are getting by, but its still something very hard to get over. Much like Jem looking after Scout, I have had a big roll in my brothers life. I believe we are very good friends today and I hope that will never change.

The things I most learned from To Kill A Mockingbird are not to judge people to harshly because you can overlook what kind of person they really are, and even though evil and hardship may overpower good, you can still see some good in people. This first theme of not judging people is important to me because I was a big child, always taller than my classmates and peers, so people would label me as the "scary big dude." I hardly thought that was fair, even though it did come in handy if I didn't get my way (I'm only joking don't worry). Although I was labeled, once people got to know me they saw how cool I could be and I got quite a few friends. The second theme is especially important to me. I have had the displeasure of meeting some people that are not the nicest people in the world. Even though these people were the snake's venom, I still knew people that I knew would always be there for me, my dad, my mom, and my brother. Those three people are very close to me and help me see the best in people even in the hardest of times, and I will thank them for the rest of my life because that is one of the most important quality a person can have, seeing the good in people no matter what.