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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful
Review: I am 13 years old, and in my eight grade class this is a required reading book. We started reading this wonderful book less than a week ago, and I'm on my second time reading it. I cannot believe that some schools have actually banned this book- this book tells life like it is... Parent's are sometimes the cause of the ban. I guess maybe that they don't want their kids to be exposed to the language or racism. Well, my father suggested that I read this book when I was in fourth grade, and I wish I would have. The racism is used by ignorant people- I think I'd rather learn that from a book other than to be first exposed to it in real life. Other than that, it teaches you an important lesson - stand up for what you believe in, no matter what the cost. I hope that you all read this book. If you don't understand it, mail me!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great
Review: I read this last year in 9th grade and I loved it. I read the entire thing in a week. With most classics it takes me much longer to read. This classic is a must read. It not only is great for conversation, but at my age adults think I am an intelligent person. :) It is really neat and is pretty great. I liked it a lot and you will too. No wonder it's a classic.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FOR STUDENTS
Review: I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird for school and I thought, a book for school, this will suck. After a few chapters, it got really good and I didn't want to put it down. The back of the book doesn't describe it well. It is not a love story (I don't know what that's about, there's no love), but about this guy Atticus who had to defend a black man who was obvously innocnet (if you want to know the end scroll to the bottom). the narrator figures out her views of life a rasism through the issues raised. It's a great book, a must read (esp. for me). I must admit though, once you take notes on it, it looses some charm.

Off2mars2@aol.com The end of the book is below

The end of the book: Atticus's client is guilty, and gets killed running away from jail. Bob Ewell get's killed tring to attack Jem, how ends the book unconsouis from the attack.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: read this as a teenager,,, reread it as an adult
Review: "It is a sin to kill a mockingbird." This book is about justice, and conscience... it is about race, and bigotry... it is about courage, and cowardice... it is about values of the family, and the culture... it is about humanity. The novel speaks through the 8-year-old voice of Scout Finch, the youngest child of a widower, Atticus Finch. There are two stories being told. One story is about Scout, her older brother Jem and their summertime friend Dill Harris as they pass three summers together in a small town in Alabama, when they focused much of their energy on a reclusive, neighbor, Boo Radley. The other story is about the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930's Alabama. Atticus is appointed to represent the accused. The seamless writing brings both stories together in perfect accord by the conclusion.

At first it would seem unbelievable that "To Kill a Mockingbird" was written by a Southern author, but upon reflection, it could have only been written by someone from the South. Harper Lee had one incredible story to tell and she told it well. Don't read this novel for inventiveness. Read it for the near perfect writing. Read it to be moved. Read "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it is a sin not to.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Compelling and Realistic
Review: I decided to write a review, because some communities in my area have seen fit to ban this book in the public schools, but I am here to support this book 100%. I read this book last year as a freshman in high school. It was very fascinating and a great learning experience. It teaches how things in the world used to be and perhaps still are. Through the course of the book you will fall in love with Scout, an intelligent and insightful young girl. You will also find the greatest respect for Scout's father Atticus because he does as his conscience dictates no matter how much he is opposed by the people in his community. It is a book everyone should read, whether they are a child, teen or an adult.

This book has been banned in the public schools in my area because it tells the truth about the world. But you can't change history, or ignore it. Read this book because the plot is excellent, the characters interesting, and because all history is important, not just the sugar coated parts.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What a Book!
Review: What an incredible piece of work! I really enjoyed this book. It gave me Southern life during the great depression, and taught me a little something too. Scout is rambunctious and spunky, her adventures with Jem and Dill made me laugh quite a few times. Atticus is quite impressive, he had a sense of justice and an intelligence I've never seen in anyone. This is a real life story, if not true, and it'll make you really think about the predjudices we hold against other people.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A classroom favorite
Review: Out of all the books that I've taught to 10th graders, this is by far the most popular. More discussion comes from Mockingbird than any other I've required students to read. It's amazing to me that this was Lee's first and apparently last work. How many Pulitzer-winning authors can claim they only wrote one book? And then to have it win such acclaim! There must be good reason why it is still ranked in the Top 1000, an amazing fact when you consider how many books have been written. I just wonder how many new books today in the Top 10 will be virtually unknown five years from now. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with a number of individual and social issues. No doubt the most sensitive issue is racism. I read a newspaper article this past summer where some big-shot scholar is claiming that Mockingbird is actually racist and should be read/taught with politically correct glasses. Give me a break! Lee was way ahead of her time and dealt with reality in a quite appropriate manner. The story line is crisp and never bogs down. It will make you think, and I believe it will create an urge in you to dialogue with others about vital contemporary issues of our day.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not My Favorite
Review: I can see why some people enjoy To Kill a Mockingbird. It is very vocal about certain issues in life. I was completely bored reading this book. Although I liked Scout and Jem, I was not excited to read about a young girl's life in a small town. It seemed like a small plot and was not planned well. A court case is hardly a thrilling idea.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It's a sin
Review: Not to like this book. Harper Lee's semi autobiographical Pulitzer Prize winner is a superb account of bigotry and injustice set in 1930's Alabama as viewed through the eyes of children.

The hero of this moral fable is lawyer Atticus Finch, who sets the small town of Maycomb ablaze with controversy when he agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a crippled Negro who is accused of raping a white woman.

But this isn't just a story about Tom Robinson. It's also a coming of age story, a story which blatantly illustrates the fact that we learn something new every day, and that we must never judge situations or people by appearances. Tom Robinson, a simple, hardworking Negro, is judged by the colour of his skin, and by the oft held assumption that ALL Negroes lie, that ALL Negroes are evil and dangerous, that no white woman is safe around a Negro male. And Boo Radley, the subject of decades long gossip and innuendo, is judged by the children - Jem and Scout Finch and Dill Harris - as being a bogeyman, a malevolent being who has dedicated his life to the pursuit of evil. Yet, unbeknown to them, he is their secret benefactor, and someday he shall literally save their lives.

Disappointingly, this is Harper Lee's only novel. But then, any follow up to this superlative effort would surely have been inferior. It's hard to believe that Lee was an adult when she wrote this - her ability to describe the world and its idiosyncracies as seen through the unjaded, uncynical perspective of a child is one of the most memorable and enduring pieces of literature ever penned, provoking thoughts in the reader like "What is truth?" and "What is just and right?"

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Should have gotten TWO Pulitzer Prizes.
Review: As a present to myself, I reread this book once a year. It is a timeless novel, with too much truth to it.

It also saddens me to know that there are still people in this world who hate others simply because their skin is a different color, or they may have differences in beliefs, atittudes, ad naseum. The hate crimes we keep reading about in the papers show we haven't come a long way.

I only lament that I didn't first read this book until I went to college and started reading it in a speed reading class. HA! There is no way you can read this book in a speedy manner. It needs to be savored slowly and revisited to fully appreciate the story.

I also gave a speech on Ms. Harper's book in class as part of an assignment to sell something. Even students who didn't like reading were willing to take a chance on it, and thanked me later.

I just wish Ms. Harper had written other novels. Not sequels, of course. It would be impossible to write another book about the Finches, or their world.


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