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In 1960, Harper Lee published the long story "To Kill a Mockingbird", which was an instant success.

Harper was only thirty-four years old.

The following year, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for this book, and her fame rose for a while, but the young writer chose to live a reclusive life and did not even bother to publish her acceptance speech.

What's even more unbelievable is that her fame rose to the occasion when she was chasing after victory, but she put aside her pen for a long time and stopped creating.

Someone asked her why she didn't strike while the iron was hot and continue to create now that she was so successful

She said"Once upon a time, what else is there to write about?”

So, To Kill a Mockingbird, it became the writer's only novel**, and over the decades, the book has influenced countless people and has been translated into dozens of different languages.

In recent years, people have been asking what is the point of readingAfter reading this book, you will know why you should read more.

We live in a world full of prejudices.

Maybe inadvertently, we are struck by the prejudices of others, or inadvertently, others are struck by the prejudices we create.

The town of Maycomb is a tired old town, and when it rains, the streets turn into red mud puddles, and the sidewalks are overgrown with weeds, as chaotic and barren as people's heads.

There are mostly whites here, and there are very few blacks, but most whites strangely look down on blacks and feel that they are superior.

In the town of Maycombe, the pace of life is slow, and people wander leisurely through the square, doing everything unhurriedly, and it seems that there are more than twenty-four hours a day.

Mr. Finch's family lives in such a small town, the days are clean and leisurely, Mr. Finch likes to read, likes to read newspapers, he often plays with his children, and is also amiable and impartial to a son and a daughter.

Jem and Scout are happy to have such a father.

When Jem was ten years old, Scout was almost six years old, and they were curious about their weird neighbor Radley, who lived in seclusion and had little contact with the outside world.

However, in this world that yearns for the bustle, isolation from the bustle is a strange thing in itself, and in the town of Maycombe, seclusion is seen as an unforgivable quirk.

It is said that there is a malevolent ghost living in the house.

In short, Radley's story is becoming more and more mysterious in the town, but for curious children, figuring out Radley's secrets can even be an exciting adventure.

Jem asked his father, and he replied that it was their right to let him take care of his own affairs and let the Radley family take care of their own affairs.

However, Jem and Scout don't understand their father's words, and they try to lure Mr. Radley out just to see what he looks like.

In order to achieve their goal, these mischievous children carried Mr. Finch behind their backs and made many rude attempts, and finally, Mr. Finch told them:

Stop torturing that person.

Mr. Radley doesn't go out, but he doesn't want to come out, which is not a problem, and there is no need to cast strange eyes on others because they are different.

There are various Xi habits in the world, but we should know that everyone has their own Xi habits, which is the freedom of being human.

Let oneself be oneself, let others be others, if everyone uses their own Xi to judge others, the world will only become more and more chaotic.

Man is a prejudiced being, we come into the world, we are shaped by prejudice, and at the same time we look at people with prejudice.

We spend our lives trying to learn and Xi to get rid of prejudices.

In the blink of an eye, Scout was also of school age.

She has a father who loves to read, Scout has followed his father since he was a child, and before going to school, he was already able to read and write, however, because she can read and write, she has become a freak in the eyes of Teacher Caroline, and even Teacher Caroline looks at her with some kind of disgust.

The teacher also told Scout to go home and tell Mr. Finch not to teach Scout to read anymore because that would interfere with Scout's student life.

The prejudiced teacher said:

Reading is better to start with a blank sheet of paper, from now on, everything is in my charge, I will find a way to eliminate those bad influences, your father does not know how to teach.

In fact, Mr. Finch didn't teach Scout anything in particular, but because he loved to read books and newspapers, even his daughter fell in love with reading books and newspapers.

This is the best way to educate, to teach by example.

For the teacher's way of education, Scout only feels bored, and if the student is disobedient, he will be beaten and punished.

The teacher's words made Scout worry about whether she would lose her reading time from now on, and for a while, Scout didn't know what to do, and she didn't even want to go to school anymore.

But her father told her:

If you learn a simple skill, you'll have a lot of time dealing with all kinds of people, and you'll never really get to know a person unless you're putting yourself in their shoes. Unless you get into his ** and walk around like him.

That's compromise.

Sometimes, for the sake of a certain outcome, people have to learn to compromise.

Many of the prejudices in life lie precisely in the fact that we are stubborn, thinking that what we see is the truth, and that others who think that what we know should also know.

The so-called growth is not only the increase of age, not only the growth of the body, but also the process of our hearts becoming wider and our prejudices decreasing.

Everyone has their own prejudices, but not everyone has their own prejudices to overcome their own prejudices, some people will grow with their prejudices, and then the prejudices in his heart will also grow with them.

Scout also had her own biases, but she was taught by her father to improve.

A classmate from a poor family came to the house as a guest, and he was rude during the meal, which made Scout look down on him.

It's because she thinks that eating should be gentle.

But her father told her that not everyone has the same Xi.

So, she knew that even if someone had a different eating Xi from herself, it was normal.

Scout's curiosity about Mr. Radley is actually a prejudice, and his father tells him that everyone can choose their preferred lifestyle.

In the eyes of everyone, Mr. Finch is a good man, he is suave, he almost never gets angry, he never speaks ill of others, he always wants to be himself.

He reads books and newspapers every day.

Although he has only one life, he has experienced countless lives in books and newspapers.

A person who does not go to school, does not receive education, and does not like to read will never change his moral character, they will only continue to rot day by day until they die.

Scout and Jem's leisurely life goes on day by day, year after year, but one day, someone at school says that Scout's father wants to defend the "black ghost", which makes Scout angry and fights with the talker.

When she got home, she asked her father, "Are you defending the?"

Father said:

Absolutely!Don't use "", that's a slurious term.

From now on, subtract one from all of them.

The world will only get better if everyone thinks like this.

Mr. Finch defends Tom, a black man, and the news spreads quickly in Maycomb.

There was a lot of talk about Mr. Fincher not being so dedicated, because in the eyes of most people, black people are inherently inferior, and their black ** is the original sin.

Of course, these people do not think about why they are superior to others.

I think that when they start thinking, they don't dare to be superior, because all things are equal except God.

Others said that Mr. Finch should not defend black people, and that it would be a shame to do so.

In short, Mr. Finch is caught in a maelstrom where defending blacks makes him the target of public criticism, but he tells Scout that if he doesn't, he's not qualified to teach kids how to behave.

However, there is little chance of success in this case, and in the last hundred years, the cases of whites and blacks have almost always been failures, no matter how good they are.

But Mr. Finch still has to fight for a chance to win, why?

He said:

We can't just give up on winning because we have been defeated in the past 100 years

Because of this incident, Scout and Jem also became the target of public criticism at school, and some people always talked to irritate him both, but Mr. Finch said to use his head more.

Use your head more, not to intrigue, but to look at the problem from a higher angle, brute force can convince people's bodies, but wisdom can convince people's hearts.

Under Mr. Fincher's tutelage, Scout and Jem learned empathy, the freedom to choose their own lifestyle, and they learned to discover the beauty of life in ordinary life and to see the good in the people they hated.

Anyone with a normal mind will not be arrogant.

Perhaps, this is what we need to learn Xi most, and if a person wants to overcome his own prejudices, he must Xi learn more things and read more books.

Jem and Scout learn to play with guns, but Mr. Finch tells them

Remember, killing a robin is a crime.

It was the first time Scout had heard his father say that a certain act was a crime.

Later, she realized that robins are a kind of birds that hum beautifully for people to enjoy, they don't do anything bad, they don't eat flowers, fruits and vegetables in people's yards, they don't build nests in the barn, they just sing to their heart's content.

Perhaps, the black Tom is such a "robin", he is kind and often helps a white girl, but in the end he is framed by the girl's alcoholic father and taken to court.

In court, Mr. Finch argues with reason, step by step to restore the truth of the matter, it turns out that this white girl often asks Tom for help, and Tom sees her as pitiful and always helps her without asking for anything in return.

But the girl fell in love with Tom, and one day, she called Tom into the house and tried to seduce Tom, but her father found out, which made her drunkard father angry, so he said that Tom ** his own daughter.

The truth of the matter has been restored, but Tom still dies of prejudice in the end, from many white people trying to maintain their superiority.

He died only because he was black.

Mr. Finch said:

I am not in favor of maintaining hypocritical etiquette at the cost of human lives.

However, when darkness is the norm and the first light is sin, Mr. Finch's approach was not supported, but was scolded by many people, and some people resented Mr. Finch's family for it.

When certain prejudices become the dominant perceptions, those who do not obey these prejudices are often treated as outliers.

I remember Fang Long told a very ironic fable in the preface to "Tolerance", in the valley of ignorance, people follow the old dogma and are not allowed to go out.

Some of the young people wanted to go out of the valley and see the bigger world, and one of them went out and came back to tell his fellow man, but his man stoned him to death because he had broken the dogma.

He came back and told the people in the valley that the land outside the valley was fertile and that the people said he was crazy.

But in the end, there was a famine in the valley of ignorance, but the people of the valley went out and survived along the path marked by the man.

As long as it is prejudice, there will always be a day when it will be broken, however, those who try to break it in the first place will always have to pay for it.

In the courtroom where Tom was tried, Mr. Finch concluded about the white girl:

She didn't commit a crime, she just violated a deep-rooted law in this society. This law is so harsh that whoever violates it is destined to be purged as an alien, a victim of extreme poverty and ignorance.

The law of society that Mr. Finch speaks of is that black and white are incompatible, and that whites and blacks cannot be together, because whites think they are nobler than blacks.

However, Mr. Finch's summary caused the family to lose face, and they held a grudge, wanted revenge, and even threatened to kill Mr. Finch.

On a dark and windy night, Scout and Tom were retaliated against as they walked down the dark streets, and if Radley hadn't shown up in time, Jem and Scout would have been murdered, but Jem was left with a lifelong disability.

Eventually, the ** died.

At the end, Mr. Finch told his daughter:

Most people are kind, and you'll find out when you finally get to know them.

It is true that most people are kind, and in this world, everyone carries their own prejudices, they live in prejudices, but they are kind.

As in this world, most people in ** are prejudiced, and Mr. Finch is one of the few who are not prejudiced.

The greatest practice in our life is also to get rid of our prejudices and be a natural and beautiful self.

The world we live in is a world full of prejudices.

When we come into this world, we have to accept certain prejudices, but fortunately, we can learn and Xi in order to finally get rid of prejudices and eventually become people who are not bound by prejudices.

In the past few years, many people have been debating a topic, is there any point in reading?

Some people think that after reading a lot of books, they still can't make money, so there is no point in reading.

But to live, people need more than bread.

There is only one life, but we can live in books countless times, because many writers write their lives into books, and we can live again just by reading their books.

This world is also full of prejudice, if we don't read, our life will only follow the mainstream and be kidnapped by prejudice, and reading can allow us to determine the direction of our own life, and truly make our hearts wider and cleaner.

Why do people read more?

It is to have the power to choose one's own direction in this world full of prejudices, not to be bound by prejudices, and not to create prejudices.