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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.
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Effie, April 30, 2007 (view all comments by Effie)
A classic that always needs to be revisited.
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isaac_k, April 24, 2007 (view all comments by isaac_k)

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o Kill a Mockingbird was, in short, a wonderful tale. Told through the eyes of 6/7/8 year-old Jean Louise Finch, it delves deep into: Small-town life, racism, child’s play, the strangeness of how women act around one another, kindness, and human nature, among other things. When Scout’s father, Atticus, quietly defies the town by defending a black man, Scout and her brother Jem are exposed to the new, ugly world that adults live in.

I started reading To Kill a Mockingbird because I knew it was a classic for some reason. However, most of the non-Mark Twain “Classics” I have read turned out to be rather dry and full of the type of vernacular you might hear when somebody’s trying to act smart at a fancy dinner party. I encountered this: “If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

This book is amazing; in fact, amazing doesn’t seem to cut it. It’s dramatic; full of dry humor and deep emotions; it’s entertaining, which is what a book should be all about. For these reasons, I could not find any reviews with anything bad to say about it, even from people that sounded (at least online) like they needed to read a lot more books. It’s this kind of book that makes me want to read more; it’s this kind of book that also makes you want to go out and do something.

The most important thing that this writer says is not to judge people by your preconceived judgments or other people’s judgments, preconceived or not. This is displayed in the book in two ways: Tom Robinson’s rape case and Boo Radley (I have a feeling that the reason for the book starting when it did is to build up Boo’s character). Both these men are quite different than what they seem.

I learned something from this book, too: that most times the best way to communicate with people is to confront them with common sense and innocence, at Atticus said, “So it took ‘em an eight-year-old to bring ‘em to their senses, did it? Maybe we need a police force of children.”


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Jordan R, April 24, 2007 (view all comments by Jordan R)
I have just read To Kill A Mocking Bird. This was a excellent book that catches you with every page you read. This book was a wonderful setting in the early 1920’s. To Kill a Mockingbird was an absolutely astounding book. It showed what segregation and prejudice was really like in the olden days. During the beginning of the book it pretty much told what happened so far thought their lives. Jem was the son of Atticus Finch. The story is basically about this family and the town “outcasts” The Radleys. They were suposively the weirdo’s of the town because of rumors that have spread about the father killing his own son, and how he never ever comes out of his house. In the end of this book a black man Tom Robinson got convicted of raping a white woman and had to go to court. The kind man Atticus became his lawyer. He went to trial with no given chance to win because of the segregation in those days. Everyone was against him. I am not going to reveal what happened but it is a MUST READ in my book. This book was extremely interesting, though I would advise you to have a dictionary next to you for a couple parts of the book (like the 1st chapter) but overall it was interesting thought the whole book. It is just one of those that keep you going.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780446310789
Author:
Lee, Harper
Publisher:
Warner Books
Author:
Lee, Harper
Location:
New York, N.Y. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Girls
Subject:
Prejudices
Subject:
Race relations
Subject:
Southern states
Subject:
Fathers and daughters
Subject:
Trials
Subject:
Alabama
Subject:
Legal stories
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Copyright:
1960
Edition Number:
Warner Books ed.
Edition Description:
1st Perennial classics ed.
Series Volume:
[3]
Publication Date:
December 1982
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
7.00x4.14x.77 in. .31 lbs.
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