To kill a Mockingbird is a book told through the eyes of a young girl who is constantly witnessing racism in the USA during the 1930’s. Harper Lee uses Scout, the young girl witnessing the racism in the USA, to get her moral position across. She uses different characters to get her point across that she strongly disagrees with racism, but she never says once that racism is wrong. One of the most famous quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird, is the following;

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

I believe that this quote symbolises how Harper Lee felt on the racism situation in the time she was growing up. I think that she is basically saying that you need to step into a black persons shoes and see things from his perspective on how unfair everything and everyone was to them at the time. The justice system at the time only aloud white juries so a lot of the time black people had no chance of avoiding prison sentences even if they had done nothing wrong (depending on if the white jury was racist or not). During the whole book Harper Lee’s main intention was to open the eyes of the rest of the world on how bad the racism was in the USA and across other countries in the world.

That is my piece of Harper Lee’s moral position in To Kill a Mockingbird.