To Kill a Mockingbird Final Essay Freshman English Introduction The literary critic Wayne C. Booth contends that when we read literature we “stretch our own capacities for thinking about how life should be lived.” If this is so, then the study of a novel such as To Kill a Mockingbird ought to conclude with reflection about what we can learn by reading it and then put into practice in our own lives. During our studies of To Kill a Mockingbird, we have wrestled with profound moral and ethical questions;
pursuit of Happiness.” (U.S. Constitution) This provides freedom for every person in the United States not to be discriminated. However, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in the 1930s, discrimination neglected the constitution in the southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. The young narrator in the novel, Scout Finch, experiences the extreme prejudices in her hometown with the help of her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus Finch. I illustrate these events from multiple perspectives by synthesizing through