“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a Pulitzer prize-winning novel written by an American author Harper Lee in 1960. It’s one of the pioneers dealing with race in America. Two years later, the book was adapted into a same name movie with the same great success. When Lee grew up in Alabama 1930s, she experienced a warm childhood, the Great Depression and deep inequities between races. She put all these things together and made up a fascinating story background. On top of these, it is her father, or Atticus Finch, a modest rural lawyer and a widower who raises his children alone and tries to inspire them to be a decent human being by example. It is the unjust days in the Old South when the blacks are segregated, when intense prejudice privileges among the whole community, when all Negroes are not to be trusted around white women, a quiet humble Negro, Tom, is accused of raping a white woman. In fact, it is this woman who tries to seduce and fabricate a case against Tom, though this obliging young man has helped her so many times before. It is the unforgiving days when justice steps back to the colored people, when all Negroes are assumed liars and immoral beings, some people of noble souls, some people like Atticus steps forward. Atticus steps forward to protect and defend for a Negro with the belief that all men are created equal. He stands firm for what’s right no matter what the pressures, threats or humiliations are. It is these people who bring hopes and future to the whole country in the darkest time. In the courtroom, Atticus’s summation convincingly proves that the defendant is innocent. He earnestly pleads with the all-white jury to restore Tom back to his family. Unfortunately, Tom is still found guilty and detained. When Atticus’ sadly packing his things, everyone leaves the courtroom but the segregated black spectators in the upstairs. Nearly a hundred black folks remain silent and then stand up spontaneously and soberl