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Today in our world discrimination and prejudice are still very alive.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests against police killings of black people and broader issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.

In 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin. Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans. I'm not saying that that police are racist or anything like that. I'm also not saying that they're not racist because I personally don't know, however I do know that there shouldn't still be race related protests still going on in our world. we know from the past that its we are all equal, and yet there are still racist people in our world. I don't think thats right. All lives matter.

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"Waiting on the world to change"- John Mayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY

I chose this song lyric because I think that it can relate to the theme that Dill creates in "To Kill A Mockingbird". John Mayer sings about how to world needs to change from its prejudice environment, and this song came out in 2006 so I think that says something about how there is still prejudice and discrimination in our world nearly 60 years after TKAM was published.

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The theme of TKAM is to kill innocence. The characters in the story such as Dill, Jem, Scout, Atticus, etc. are examples of the innocent (mockingbirds)  who are being destroyed by the evil and the prejudice in the community.

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Dill is a 7 year old boy who comes to Maycomb every summer to live with his aunt. He is very skinny and small for his age (smaller than Scout). He has  a very wild and creative imagination.  He befriends Jem and Scout and proceeds hangout with them for many summers to come. Dill doesn't know who his biological father is very much like Scout does not really know her mother. Dill fuels Jem and Scouts imagination towards Boo Radley by sharing his theories about him with the two, and he heavily influences them to try and get him to come out of the house.

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1. When Dill cries during Mr. Gilmers cross examination of Tom. Thats where he loses his a bit of innocence and realizes that there is evil in this world. "That old Mr. Gilmer doin' him thataway, talking so hateful to him […] The way that man called him 'boy' all the time an' sneered at him, an' looked around at the jury every time he answered-[…] It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that—it just makes me sick." (Lee, 155-165)

2. Dill doesn't mature as much as Jem and Scout do during the trial of Tom Robinson, Which gives him more innocence than them. "Atticus-" said Jem bleakly. He turned in the doorway. "What, son?"
"How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep. Good night." (Lee, 14-17)

3. Dill is neglected by his mother and step father. Dill shows a sort of innocence she he tells Jem and Scout wild made up stories about his father, for example that he was a railroad president and taller than Atticus. This is childish. Dill makes up these stories because he envies the relationship that Jem and Scout have with Atticus. Once his mother remarries he has high hopes about his step father. His innocence is gets kind of destroyed when his mother an step father don't have time for Dill, so he feels neglected and runs away to his aunt in Maycomb. "Dill's eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at the floor. Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood. He went out of the room and down the hall. "Atticus," his voice was distant, "can you come here a minute, sir?" Beneath its sweat-streaked dirt Dill's face went white. I felt sick. […] Jem was standing in a corner of the room, looking like the traitor he was. "Dill, I had to tell him," he said. "You can't run three hundred miles off without your mother knowin'." We left him without a word. (Lee, 79-91)