Your various commentaries and knowledge of poison do not constitute me, but one ten-thousandth of me is at a glance.
Hello friends of Beluga culture, today, I will talk about the American female writer Harper Lee's long ** "To Kill a Mockingbird", which tells the story of a young man named Tom Robinson, who was falsely accused of committing a crime, just because he was a black man, and defense lawyer Atticus Fincher, although he had evidence that Tom was not a criminal, could not prevent the jury from concluding Tom's guilt. This reckless crime led to Tom's death at the hands of a random gunman.
The story takes place during the Great Depression in the United States, Scout is a girl from a single-parent family, her mother died of a heart attack when she was two years old, and her father raised him and her brother alone.
There is a forbidden place near the house where a strange man Arthur Radley lives, known in this episode as "Arthur".
People in the town say that he is ugly, does all kinds of evil, is isolated from the world, and behaves strangely.
As the elder brother grew older, his curiosity about Arthur outweighed his fear, and despite his father's warnings, he frequently approached Arthur's house.
On a dark and windy night, he broke into Arthur's house with a letter to Arthur, was found by Arthur's brother, fired a shot from the skylight, and the brother fled, when he climbed over the fence, his pants were hooked on the wire, and in a hurry, he took off his pants, and after going out, he made up lies, evaded the adult's questioning, and was afraid that the matter would be revealed, so he sneaked back to get his pants late at night, only to find that the pants had been sewn up, neatly folded and placed on the fence, but the sewing was crooked.
Since that day, the two children have always received small gifts, chewing gum, small toys, and soap sculptures that are very similar to themselves in the tree hole near their home.
Until Arthur's cousin sealed the hole in the tree under the pretext that the tree was dying.
The two children were sad for a long time, and one night, the neighbor's house suddenly caught fire, and seeing that the fire was about to affect their own house, the father went to put out the fire and put them outside the fence of Arthur's house, because it was too long, they fell asleep, and when they opened their eyes again, they both were covered with blankets.
Seeing this, it is not difficult to analyze that Arthur did all this, he was the one who sewed the pants, he was the one who gave gifts to the tree hole, and he was the one who put blankets on them.
Then why do people in the town evaluate him like that?It goes back many years that Arthur's father was a Baptist who practiced foot washing and regarded all pleasures as sin.
They believe that all outdoor activities should be eliminated and that they should spend as much time as possible sitting in the house reading the Bible. But young Arthur loved to hang out with his friends, hang around, watch movies, and go to parties.
When a group of people were driving around in the central square, the old sheriff caught them and took them to the juvenile court, and the judge sent these delinquent juveniles to a work-study school for education, and the others received the best secondary education and went their separate ways.
Only Arthur was brought home by his father to supervise, and no one knows how he made Arthur never show up again, and he can't imagine what kind of pain and suffering Arthur went through.
It wasn't until 15 years later that Arthur inserted scissors into his father's thigh, then pulled them out as if nothing had happened, and continued to cut the poster.
The police were going to send Arthur to a psychiatric hospital, but his father felt ashamed, and after discussion, he was imprisoned in the basement of the damp and moldy county ** building.
It wasn't until Arthur was dying in that environment that his father picked him up, when Arthur was in his 30s.
I thought that after Arthur's father died, everything would be over, but my cousin took his father's place and continued to torture him, so to speak, he was ruined by his father's life.
It is not surprising that in the book, the black nanny of the Scout family, commented on As's father, and sometimes someone has a Bible in his hand worse than a whiskey bottle in someone's hand.
There is a kind of people in the world who only worry about the next life and do not Xi how to behave in this life.
The most educational is the Black Tom Ruwson incident.
In the mid-19th century, racial discrimination in the United States was particularly severe, that is, the black Tom was gentle and kind, but he was still spurned and despised by almost all whites.
Nineteen-year-old white girl, Lara, is lonely and has no friends, and Tom, a kind black man, often helps her do some farm work when she passes by.
One day, when he seduced Tom at home, his father became angry and beat his daughter, and then reported Tom to the police for snatching the bag and beating up Ala, planning to protect the family's reputation by falsely accusing Tom.
In court, Scout's father, who is a lawyer for the day, insisted on defending Tom under heavy pressure, arguing that Tom was a person with a disabled left arm, and he could not pinch Xiaola with his right hand and hit him with his left hand, which was completely unequal to the accusation.
It turns out that this is a crime of lust for Tom.
The jury argued for more than three hours, and when everyone thought they were about to win, they declared Tom guilty, and Scout and his brother, who were in attendance, wept.
Blacks thanked Scout's father because it was the only time someone had defended a black man with all his heart.
Even after losing, when all the blacks and Scout's father were about to appeal for Tom, the bad news came that Tom was so scared in prison that he chose to escape and was shot dead during the release.
A kind and innocent robin died.
Scout's father, in this matter, told him and his brother that there is one thing that cannot follow the herd principle, and that is the conscience of man.
Ra's father, angry at what Scout's father had done in court, chose to take revenge on his child.
Dressed in a huge doll costume, Scout and his brother are walking home after a performance in the dark of night, when they are ambushed by Ra's father with a knife, and the two helpless children are quickly defeated by him.
In a moment of great danger, Arthur rushes out of the house, fights with Ra's father, saves them, and carries his brother home for treatment.
When Scout took off his European suit and ran home, he saw Arthur standing alone in the corner, his face was pale, his cheeks were sunken, his gray eyes were dull, and he looked nervous.
Scout stares at him, and he gives a shy smile as Scout finally meets their poor friend, the only side Scout has ever seen of him.
It was unbelievable that Arthur was so brave for him and his brother, and tears instantly wet his eyes.
The upright mayor and Scout's father find out that Ra's father was killed by Arthur and argue about how to announce the matter to the townspeople.
Scout's father thinks it is appropriate to let his underage brother replace Arthur in court, but the mayor refuses because his brother has not hurt little Rufs with a knife, but he can't let Arthur face the predicament, because the people in the town are prejudiced against Arthur, saying that he can't do what is righteous, because Arthur can't afford unnecessary trouble, and he doesn't want to see people.
In the end, the mayor decides to prove that Ara's father fell on the knife himself, and they protect another kind robin.
Scout took Arthur by the hand and sent him home, closing the door and never seeing him again.
Scout and his brother have learned that you can never really get to know a person by walking around in his shoes, but when you walk along the path he walks, you feel sad even passing by.
There are many more educational words in this book, such as when a classmate went to Scout's house for dinner, because of the different Xi eating habits, he wanted to instruct the classmate's behavior, the nanny pulled him to the kitchen, and said, some people have different Xi eating habits than us, but you can't bring it up to someone at the dinner table because of this, that boy is a guest at your house, even if he wants to eat a tablecloth, pinch his lunch.
When the Scout family entertains guests, he does not understand the arrogant and prejudiced words of the guests.
His aunt told him that it was not necessary for a person to show everything he knew, that this was not a lady's practice, and besides, people didn't like that there was someone around them who knew more than them, and it would make them angry.
No matter how standard the language you use, you can't change them, and unless they want to learn it themselves, there's nothing you can do about it, you either keep your mouth shut or say the same thing to them.
To kill a robin is to be guilty, because the robin just hums a wonderful ** for you to enjoy, and does nothing bad.
They don't eat flowers, fruits and vegetables grown in other people's yards, nor do they build nests in the barn, they just sing for us.
People tend to see only what they are looking for and hear what they want to hear.
When a child asks you a question, answer it in a proper way, don't ramble on it, talk about him left and right.
Even though children are just children, they will be more aware than adults that you are avoiding questions, and avoiding them will only confuse them.
Most people are kind, but you'll find out when you get to know them eventually.
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