To Kill a Mockingbird

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Summary: Book or Movie?
Review: This is an excellent book, but given the choice of either seeing the movie or reading the book, I would go with the movie, but it's a very close call. The book has some additional material that was not included in the movie, but the movie is one of the best adaptations I have ever seen, perhaps because it is so faithful to the book, leaving out only those scenes that are not crucial to the main plot of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Being able to see and hear the characters makes the story seem much more real.

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Summary: worth reading many times!!
Review: This book describes 1930fs America. The scene is Alabama. Main characters are Atticus, Jem and Scout. This book is about Jem and Scoutfs growth through some events like their father, Atticus, worked for a black man and relationship between Scout, Jem and Boo Radley who stayed for many years inside in his house. I strongly recommend this book. Because this book has deep thought about prejudice and discrimination to black people at that time. In this book, white people in the city considered black people to be criminals. The scariest thing is that they didnft aware that they discriminate. Against these problems, Atticus fought proudly. It changed people around him. He has really good, fair personality. After reading this book, you will wish that I had a father like Atticus Because I thought so.

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Summary: Great Book Second Time Around
Review: I first read this book at about 11 because I had heard it was a good one. I hated it. However, about 2 years later, I had to read it for a school project and I absoulty LOVED it! This is a wonderful, bittersweet novel about growing up in the South around the 50's and having to choose between reputation and jusitce. I highly reccomend this book to anyone and everyone, however, wait till you're at least 12 to fully enjoy this wonderful story for what it really is.

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Summary: Nothing short of a classic
Review: Harper Lee told a great story with this book about the way things were in the 30's. Racism, poverty, and peer pressure were all expressed very well in the story, and it accurately depicts the struggles of standing up for an unpopular cause. I had to read this for my freshman English class a few years ago, and I'm glad that I did because it's a great story with a good message behind it--don't judge a man until you know the man.

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Summary: i dont understand
Review: i have to read this book for school. i have heard from my mother and a lot of other older people that this is a great book. i want to know why. it is true that i am only up to chapter 8, but this book is slow moving and boring. so far, i do not like this book. i am not like most people. i saw a beautiful mind, which has won 4 academy awards and i did not feel as if it should received that many. in order to do my homework i need to listen to any kind of music as long as its not classical or anything that doesnt have words. i get straight As but i do not study and i do not pay attention in class. true, there might be something wrong with me, but i just want to know why this is "such a great book"
signed,
confused

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Summary: School Assignments Never Touched Me This Much!
Review: When I heard that we were going to to be reading To Kill A Mockingbird for our next book, I thought, "Oh, great a book about rough times, that's all we need right now." But this book is so much more... It truly touches your heart from meeting Dill to supporting Robinson you'll never know what's coming next. Not only will Harper Lee's words scream at you from the page but they will pull you in until all you want is to read, to find out what happens to these kids and how fast they are thrown into the real world. No kid wants that. This book is so moving, you'll want to read it again and again just to get that heart warming feeling. Thanks to Harper Lee for this inspiring novel.

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Summary: Don't judge a book by it's cover!
Review: Wow! This book was great. I am not much of a reader and I have a really hard time concentrating on reading something when I am not interested in it. This book was very interesting and caught my attention the first time I picked it up. The character that interested me the most was the little girl Scout who was also telling the story. Scout was a normal 8 year old girl who was very much a tom boy. She loved playing with her older brother Jem and could very much hold her own. They lived with their father Atticus Finch who was a trial lawyer. Atticus Finch gets an offer on day to defend a african american man who was accused of raping a white woman. As much talk is going around the small town, Atticus is still able to set a great example for his children and beliving in what is right. There was alot of hate in the town and everyone wondered why he was defending this colered man. Nobody wanted to believe him. Atticus believed that the man was entitled to a fair trial and the whole town was very angry with him. As he stood his ground his children were there watching all of this and realized that nobody should be treated different just because of their skin color or anything different from anybody else. Atticus taught his children that you should not be ashamed for helping others and not letting other intemadate you. Overall I thought this book was great and it brings to reality what is true in this world.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: I had to do a book project on a classic book, so I chose to read To Kill a Mockingbird because I had heard so much about it. But when I started to read it, I realized that I didn't know anything about the plot. The story was amazing, though I will not write anything about the book's content. You will have to find out by yourselves by reading it.

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Summary: To Kill a Mocking Bird.
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird is an absolutely brilliant, marvelous and cultivating book. The story takes place in the Deep South and is told through the innocent eyes of an eight-year-old girl called Scout. Her father is a lawyer who is verbally harassed by an entire town because he decided to defend an innocent black man accused of raping a white young woman. To kill a Mockingbird moved me to both laughter and tears as I read how Scout learns about life from watching her own father stand up and fight for what is right, exposing and challenging an entire town in it's unfairness and ignorance. Harper Lee, the author, is luminous. It is no wonder that this book shook the standards of our nation for the time it was written. I give it my highest admiration because of its deep significance, yet it was written in such simple language and storytelling.

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Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird
Review: Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a book that I loved to read. Lee portrayed the literary device theme, very well. You should put yourself in other people's shoes so that you don't prejudge them explains what the theme of this is. Within theme, a major topic is where the central character and narrator of this book, Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout changed from an immature girl in overalls, to a mature, young lady.
Many characters affected this change, among those would be her older brother Jeremy Atticus Finch, better known as Jem. Scout looked up to Jem and followed in his footsteps. For example, when Jem and Dill Harris were planning to go to Boo Radly's house to place a note on the window Scout insisted that she tag along. Jem also tried to keep her safe like in the end when he tried to stop Bob Ewell from hurting her, even though it would only redirect the attack to him.
Another character that affected Scout would be her Aunt Alexandre, a person that Scout did not favor much throughout the book. Her Aunt desperately attempted to turn Scout into a young lady. Alexandre always contradicted what Atticus said, and never agreed with his ways of raising children. when Aunt Alexandre had a party for her friends, and Scout tried to impress the women by being extremely polite. Normally, Scout would be wearing overalls and she would speak her mind rather than think of how she'd make other people feel if she was rude. Atticus wouldn't have minded that so much, but it would have driven her Aunt up the walls. Aurther "Boo" Radly is also another character with a great influence on Scout. He taught her to not judge people before you actually know them. Throughout the entire story, Scout and Jem would continuously try to get a glance at Boo. They harassed him on a near daily basis just to try and see him. Through all this, Boo left gifts for them in a hole in an old, dead tree, and in the end he saved their lives from Mr. Ewell. An example of how they harassed him was putting on plays that were supposed to be about him and the Radly family, but an example of his kindness was putting a blanket around Scout one night when she and Jem were watching Mrs. Maudie's house burn down.
The final character that had a major influence on the life of Scout was Calpurnia, the Finch's cook. Calpurnia, a black, strong-willed woman taught Scout to not be prejudice by taking two white children (Scout and Jem) to her all black church. While Jem was going through his maturing stage, he often left Scout out because he didn't want her around. Whenever he did this Calpurnia was there for Scout, and open-heartedly invited her to help in the kitchen. This helped to make Scout feel wanted. The most significant symbol in the novel appears in the title - the mockingbird. It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because all they do is go about their own way singing and not making trouble for anyone. The mockingbird symbolizes how people try to mind their own business, but society won't let them. Dill Harris would be a symbol of the mockingbird, because he is a victim of society. Dill was repeatedly shipped from relative to relative because his mother didn't want him around. He ran away because he finally realized that he was unwanted by his own family.
Boo Radly is also a symbol of the mockingbird because he locked himself up in his house and doesn't bother anyone, but society judges him with no reason. People would blame things on him and Jem and Scout would harass him, and all because he just goes about his own business.
Tom Robinson, an innocent black man, is also a symbol of the mockingbird because he was judged by society when he was blamed for a crime that everyone knew he didn't commit. He was trying to be nice, and help Mayella Ewell whenever he was asked to, and for this she made him out to be guilty of a great crime, and even when Atticus proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that he was innocent, he was found guilty. A quote to support the theme of you should put yourself in other people's shoes so that you don't prejudge them is from Atticus Finch, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." In the case of Tom Robinson, prejudice plays around the trial. In this trial Bob Ewell blamed Tom for the rape of his daughter Mayella. This trial was a trial of black against white. Prejudice was one of the largest problems of judging. Though judging is a huge problem then and now it will never be solved. This book is based on reality and therefore is interesting.