 Thank you guys for planning this event. I think this is an incredible event And I feel very fortunate to be a part of it And I really wish my mom could be here actually was just kind of silly but my mom was the one who got me hooked on books in the first place We grew up in Glacier St. Mary's Beach Act and not a lot of kids around so in the winter we just read a lot And the reason I chose to kill a mockingbird was because Every year we would go up to Illinois for Christmas and we would stay with my grandparents And that's when I first got my introduction to kill a mockingbird Through a movie and we would always watch it all of us sitting in the living room And the Christmas tree would be off in the corner with the lights on and I would sit on the couch next to my grandpa And you could always tell me I was perfect And Every year without fail we would watch to kill a mockingbird then I actually read a book and it's just an incredible book And it just never never fails to remind me of my grandfather Who is very similar to Atticus Finch and Taught me a lot of the same lessons that Atticus taught Scout. And so this is where I'm going to go Calpurnia bent down and kissed me. I ran along wondering what I could move her She'd always wanted to make up with me. That was it She'd always been too hard on me. She had seen the last air of her fractious ways And she was starry and too stubborn to say so I was worried for the day's crimes After supper Atticus sat down with a paper and called Scout. You ready to read? The Lord sent me more than I could bear and I went out to the front porch and Atticus followed me Something wrong Scout? I told Atticus I didn't feel well and didn't think I would go to school anymore. That was all right with him Atticus sat down on the swing and crossed his legs His fingers wandered around his watch pocket and he said that that was the only way to think You ate it an amiable sign Silence and I sought to reinforce my position You never went to school and you do all right. So I'll just stay home too. You can teach me like granddaddy taught you in Uncle Jack No, I can't sit out of kiss. I have to make a living Besides they put me in jail if I kept you at home Tell us what I need you to read tonight. I'm feeling all right. Really Thought so. What's the matter? Bit by bit. I told him the day's misfortunes And she said you taught me all wrong. So we can't ever read it anymore ever Please don't send me back. I Please sir Atticus stood up and walked to the end of the porch We completed his examination though. I serivine. He scrolled back to me first of all If you learn a simple trick scout, you'll be along a lot better with all kinds of folks You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view sir Until you climb into a skin and walk around in it Atticus said I've learned many things today and Miss Caroline had learned several things herself She learned not to hand something to a cunning hand for one thing And if Walter and I had put ourselves in her shoes, we'd have seen it was an honest mistake on her part We could not expect her to learn and all make homes rain to waste in one day And we could not hold her responsible when she did not know better Well, I'll be dog. I said I didn't know better than not to read her and she held me responsible Listen Atticus. I don't have to go to school. I was bursting with the sudden thought first evil Remember, he just got to school the first day Touring lady reckons she'll get carried out in the law when he when she gets his name on the roll Can't do that scoundrel Addis can send Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little bit in special cases in your case. The law remains rigid So go to school. You must I Don't see why I don't have to when he doesn't listen I just said that you will have been the disgrace to make home for three generations None of them had done the honest days work in his recollection He said that some Christmas when he was getting rid of the tree He would take me with him and show me where and how they lived They were people that they live like animals They can go to school anytime they want and when the show that fantasy symptom of wanting an education There are ways of keeping them in school by force But it's silly to force people like you will send you a new environment If I didn't go to school tomorrow, you forced me to Let us believe it if this said I just writing you miss out pinch our other comic book You must obey the law. He said that the rules were a member of an exclusive Society made up in certain in certain circumstance the common folk judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the rules activities They didn't have to go to school for one thing another thing Bob Burst's father was permitted to hunt track out a season At his that ain't bad. I said in Mayfone County hunting out a season was a misdemeanor law the capital capital felony It's against the law, right? It's certainly bad But when a man spends relief checks on green whiskey and his children have a way of crying hunger from pains crying from hunger pains I don't know of any land over around here. He grudges those children any game their father can hit Mr.. Rule shouldn't do that. Of course. He shouldn't but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children? No, sir. I said it made a final stand, but if I keep on going to school, we can't ever read anymore That's really bothering you isn't it? Yes, sir When I had a kid's look down at me, I saw the expression on his face that always made me sex expect something Do you know what compromises he asked? Bending the law No, it's an agreement reached by a mutual concessions. It works this way He said if you'll concede the necessity to go to school. We'll go on reading every night just as we always have Is it a bargain? Yes, sir Well consider it sealed without the usual formality Atticus said and we saw me preparing to spit as I opened the front screen door Atticus said by the way scout you better not say anything at school about our agreement Why not? I'm afraid our activities would be received with considerable disapprobation by learned authorities Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last real and testament fiction And we were at all times free to interpret Atticus for a translation