To Kill a Mockingbird. Part: One

This book has by far been the best of all the seven books total. Though we are not done, I think this book will be out ahead of the others by far. Based off part one, this book is the easiest to understand as well as the easiest to read in general. I feel like this book can be related to real life situations in the sense that it really touches on personality, honesty, innocence, and knowledge; as we have partially discussed in class.

When I say this book touches on innocense, I see many different scenes from the book that portray this particular quality for different characters. For example, if you look at the scene where Scout is with her cousin Francis, when they sort of get into a fight. When Francis calls Atticus a "nigger-lover," Scout looses it completely. In the end of the scene when Aunt Alexdra and their grandma find them, Francis sets Scout up by saying she is holding him in the kitchen when she is really not. This part of the book portrays the most amount innocence on Scout's part because she was basically the victim of this little incident.

I think Boo Radley is a sign of symbolism. I say this because if you look at how all the other children view Boo, and then towards the end of the first part of the book, they view him in a more grown-up and mature perspective. From the scene where Jem's pants were caught in the fence and Jem goes back to retrive them and finds them neatly folded on the fence; Boo becomes an increasingly real and genuine person. Proof of this statement in the first part of the book is found when he puts a blanket across Scout's shoulders during Miss Maudie's house fire. When Atticus tells Scout this, she doesn't beleive her father, until she is questioned as to where the blanket came from.

Overall, this book mostly portrays innocence all throughout the novel, and is the most obvious in some parts more than others. I really enjoyed the first part of this novel, and I look forward to reading the second part. I am also excited to what happens with Scout and her adventures with Jem.