To Kill A Mockingbird and Black Boy are two books dealing with racism in the early 1900's. Each one followed the life of a child as they grew up in the South. These two children lead drastically different lives because Scout Finch, the heroin of To Kill A Mockingbird, was a little white girl and Richard Wright was the title character of Black Boy. However, both experienced the harsh realities of an unfair world at …showed first 75 words of 583 total…

…showed last 75 words of 583 total…lesson in humanity. It shamed me to read about how badly black people were treated. They weren't treated like people; They were treated like animals. It left me wondering how we could try so hard to destroy another human being's life. I kept asking myself, ‘what makes one person feel that he is better than someone else?' I would recommend these books to anyone who has a heart, ready to be filled with compassion.