The book To Kill a Mocking Bird is told from a woman named Scout’s point of view, and it is told in a light and merry mood. The story begins as Scout looks back at her childhood. She started from the summer when they met a boy named Dill. By the details given in the story, I think the setting is around the 1900s in America, when the depression is happening, and when there is still slavery. There isn’t an actual plot in this story, it sort of goes by chronological order, like a woman telling the story of her life. Scout has a brother named Jem, and they spent a lot of time playing together before they went to school. After Scout finished first grade, Jem preferred to play with Dill, who comes to Maycomb every summer. These three children played around the Radley house. They make plays and games about the house and the Radley son, Arthur. I think this book is very helpful for us to understand traditional American history and culture. Many of the things that Scout’s father, Atticus Finch told his children taught me what they valued. I think the Southern people are generally good natured, and they live a simple life. Atticus Finch told his children many times that “If Boo Radley wants to stay in his house; he has the right to do so. If he wants to come out, he will go out himself; you don’t have to force him out.” From this sentence I think the traditional Americans are simple and easy-going, they don’t want to cause trouble.
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