<Tab/>To Kill a Mockingbird Essay To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1932 in the Deep South. It deals with issues of cold heartedness, shame, ignorance, intolerance, and racism, through a child's eyes. It is contrasted by the concern, dignity, tolerance, and caring of a white brother, sister, single father, and their respected black maid. This small family unit's ethics are in contrast to the ethics of the rest of the …showed first 75 words of 549 total…

…showed last 75 words of 549 total…made them realize for a moment, "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird", she summed up the moral issues of the book The issues are still relevant today. If this novel were written today I think that scene and others would have been more likely to be violent and gory, to attract a younger audience and make it "work". In conclusion, I think that this book only "works" for older generations and more peaceful societies.