What is a good thesis statement about To Kill a Mockingbird with the theme of using reason and intelligence to solve problems?

's comments are very good. I'd
like to add a detail that you might want to address later in your essay, although probably not
in your thesis. While watching the jury return to deliver their decision,slips into a sort of
half-wake state in which she imagines that the hot summer evening of the end of the trial is
like the cold February day on which the mad dog was shot dead in the street. As I read this
short and interesting reflection by Scout, the mad dog can be seen to represent the irrational
and racist fears of the general population, something that Scout had hoped would be shot down by
' clear argumentation and logic.

I really like 's suggestion for
a thesis because the novel seems to me to show that, indeed, logic and reason don't always win.
Convincing a bunch of people to change the ways they think is a whole lot more difficult that
shooting a slow-moving dog out in the open.