Personal book review - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In the long hot summer of 1935, when a lawyer named Atticus Finch was trying his best to defend a black man accused of a rape crime.

A girl named Scout and her brother named Jem was spending their summer with their friend, Dill. Poking around the town in search for something interesting when they came across the myth of the Radley's place.

As days passed by, Scout and Jem realised there is something going on regarding their father's job. The whole town is soon talking about what has their father done-he must've lost his mind for defending a black man.

The trial of the wrongly accused Tom Robinson takes place during the time of segregation, when white people don't socialize with black people. When a white man said a black man committed a crime, the black man is presumed to be guilty. Even though law leads them through a trial, but everybody knows the defendant is convicted.

Atticus fought for Tom Robinson all the way to the end, although Tom ended up being imprisoned.

To Kill A Mockingbird has portrayed heavy issues - racism, oppression and prejudice. Yet the writer has handled these parts amazingly without turning things out depressingly. Instead, she has made a powerful statement on how justice can be altered through racism besides giving us the idea to stand up against racism.

Although the story was written years ago, I still find parts of it still happening in today's world, in any places where people distrust and fear each other's difference. The story has struck me how sick of our society is. Even we're all now living in a so-called democratic and high-tech era. Technologies wouldn't save us from that. Only us can save ourselves from this frantic free fall.

There is no other way.