''To Kill a Mockingbird''

''You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around them''

It is always hard to analyse something that you really feel, not read. Scout Finch, lives with her older brother Jem and their father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. They have a friend - Dill. The three children are terrified of their neighbour, the reclusive "Boo" Radley. Once they find that someone is leaving them small gifts in a tree. Atticus is appointed by the court to defend Tom Robinson, a BLACK man who has been accused of raping a young WHITE woman, Mayella Ewell. Atticus agrees to defend Tom. Other children taunt Jem and Scout for Atticus' actions, calling him a "nigger-lover". Despite significant evidence of Tom's innocence, the jury convicts him. Jem's faith in justice is badly shaken, as Atticus's, when a hapless Tom is shot and killed while trying to escape from prison. Mayella's father attacks  Jem and Scout, someone comes to the children's rescue. Scout realizes that he is Boo Radley.

While standing on the Radley porch, Scout imagines life from Boo's perspective and regrets that they never repaid him for the gifts he had given them.

The story takes place during the Great depression, when the colour of skin played its important role in someone's life, when having a black skin was a ''sin''.  We are ''killing'' innocence, as Tom was killed, as mockingbirds were being killed. Neither Tom, nor mockingbirds were guilty. Once Atticus said ''Mockingbirds don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird''.

There is a truth saying – Do not judge a book by its cover. So no matter what is the colour of our skin, we are beautiful or not, the most important thing is what we are hiding inside.  Boo never showed him off, the things that he did; the gifts he gave, the life he rescued, Boo and Tom, they were adjusted by society, because of their appearance and not being ''equal''. Don't you think that he is really nice and most people are … when we finally SEE them?  

The book is for all generations, for You, for me, for everybody. Just remember the words I wrote in the beginning ''You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around them''.