Editor’s Note  By: Muhammad, Krishang and Christopher

The reason for our change was too pinpoint a theme that was well explained in the
book; racism. We used the scene with Scout finding out that Atticus is defending a
black person and our scene to demonstrate the theme of racism. We also used the
fact that killing a mocking bird is a sin too mate if easier for the children to
understand the racism, unlike the book which they just stated it was a sin and they
“should just shoot blue jays”. What we changed was adding the mockingbird rule,
to explain to kids that when George says “killing a mockingbird is a sin, and not