- If you could change something in the book, what would it be and why?
This book has changed me by making me see new perspectives on life I had never seen before. This entire book is filled with such amazing quotes about life, for example “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." To me this is so inspirational, because so many people think that courage is a man behind a gun, when in reality it can be so many other things. This book has also changed my perspective on how to look at people, mainly because of the really good quote Atticus had said, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” I think I've misjudged many people in my life by not thinking of what they could be going through, which is something I wont be doing from now on.
To Kill A Mockingbird has to be one of my favorite books now, because of all that I've learned about it. There's so many different things to take out of that book, for example the main theme throughout the book "empathy". I don't even think I can explain how much this book means to me now, it has so many life lessons inside of it that I don't want to let it go. I remember thinking, "this is going to be boring" however once we started reading more of it, I fell in love with all of the characters, in my opinion, Scout and Boo being the best.
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Something really small that I would change inside the book would be to make Boo stay out with Scout a bit longer at the ending. Yes I know he was exhausted from saving Jem and Scout, but I really wanted to see him interact with them some more and actually talk to Jem. I mean Harper Lee had built up so much suspense for Boo's character, as he never came out, however only coming out for an hour at most made me a bit sad. Especially how nice he was to Scout, asking her to take him home.
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