HOW BOOKS CONNECT

So in class we had to discuss our books and see how they all connect. Well it was easy for 3 of our books because we were all reading the same books, but it wasn't that much easy for Atifa's book (which I can't remember the title to it). So basically in Atifa's book there's this girl and her father sends her way because he doesn't like her. And then another character in the book wants to be friends with this other character except their parent don't want them to be friends because they have different religions, one's Muslim and the other's Jewish. And the book Adam, Wei, and me are reading is To Kill a Mockingbird and in this book the main character Scott lives in a small town call Maycomb Alabama. And her dad is a lawyer and is defending a black man Tom Robinson (and every one is racist) of a crime, and everyone is discriminating against Tom.


So we saw that these 2 books connect because they both deal with discrimination. Whether it's discrimination of race or religion. In Atifa's book the main character deals with discrimination because he is Muslim and the parents of his friend doesn't want them to be friends anymore because they both have different religions. And in the book To Kill a Mockingbird Tom deals with discrimination because he's black and everybody's racist so they atomically think that Tom is guilty. That he committed the crime simply because of his race. And we decided that when growing up you deal with a lot of discrimination because of who you are make us who we are.


So in these 2 books they show us that when you grow up you can be discriminated for who you are and that things like these can make us who we are. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scott (and I guess you can say the people in Maycomb) I guess you can say becomes a better person. She learns that people shouldn't be pronounced guilty simply because of their race that you should hear their side of the story in order to pronounce guilty or not guilty. And even if they did hear Tom's side of the story and even if the evidence was clearly proven that he was not guilty. They still put him in jail (so the people of Maycomb are still racist) and Scott learned that this is what life is and that in life discrimination can over come the power of innocents.