Question

Please help me my brain has stopped working and I have two days to finish this: Harper Lee remained very secluded in her later years and died in 2016. Based on the ideas presented in her most famous work, write the "public statement" she might have issued in the midst of the marches and protests that occurred after the death of George Floyd in 2020. Your response should be at least ½ page in length (double spaced) and remain consistent with both the ideas and tone of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Answer 1

Answer:

Atticus says to his daughter Scout (whom we follow throughout the novel), "You never truly understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." This is more important than ever.

It is because of people's ignorance and inability to understand things from another person's perspective that racism occurs. As a result of their inability to climb into the skin of George Floyd or any other victim of racial injustice, the racist cops who killed him and many other black people in the United States and around the world are unable to see that beneath skin color, beneath facial structure and language, beneath creed and accent, behind all of that is a human being, a human being who can think, laugh, and cry all the same as anyone else.

Explanation:

This is my interpretation; you are free to alter it to your own satisfaction.

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