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Summary: The Best Book Ever Written
Review: To tell everyone the truth, this book is the best book in the whole entire world. When I was told to read it in 7th grade, I looked at how big it was and I thought I was never going to be able to finish it. When I read the first page, it actually grabbed my attention. By the end of the chapter, I was so in tunned with it, that I didn't want to stop. Scout made me realize so many things in life. Actually, Scout kind of resembled me. I learned a lot about Africans and I think every english teacher should recommend this book for the students. I got a real kick out of the book. It was so hilarious, but then there were a lot of parts that actually made me want to cry, because it seemed so real. I know sometimes its hard to read a book because at first it seems so boring and too long but what i do is pretend im actually in the scene and thats how this book brought so much attention to me. I think this book is the greatest book ever written, because when i actually read it, it seemed like I was actually in it.
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Summary: Simply amazing!
Review: i first read this book in high school. After i read it the first time i read it again! this book was simply amazing Harper Lee write a story with all the important pieces that make To Kill a Mokingbid great. Read this book!
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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: This book was absolutely wonderful. I hear those who say the book was boring or didn't have enough "of the real plot," when in fact the plot is all about growing up and growing older, where the world gets frightening and all the people we used to run to for protection are helpless. This book was meaningful to me in this way. There are also people who say that Harper Lee spends too much time with exposition. The exposition was totally necessary. It set up a safe, known environment for the children we hear from- only to have it crashed down and turn into chaos. Its message of equality and condemning of racial attitudes was a lesson powerful in that time and is now. Those people dissapointed with the book don't look beyond Tom Robinson's trial to see it's real meaning. If this book is "boring," I hope never to read an exciting book as long as I live.
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Summary: Astonishing!
Review: I first read this book during my third year of high school while still living in the Caribbean. It taught me many values which are now a part of my personality, and helps me to identify with what my people went through in the post war years.African Americans can enjoy this fine piece of literature.
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Summary: "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird..."
Review: I first picked up this book when I was babysiting for my neighbor. I started reading it and didn't put it down. To Kill A Mockingbird is easily a classic, portraying southern society in the '30's and the injustice that was often thrust upon blacks. The story is told through the eyes of a child, Scout. To Kill A Mockingbird tells the story of a horrendous crime (the supposed rape of a girl by a black man)and how it shocked a quiet southern town (Maycomb).
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Summary: Life in the real world
Review: The book was great, I can see why it would be a classic. Reading about Jem and Scout made me remember many events of my own childhood. These events have molded who I am today. I know some people who would like to ban books like this in schools due to what they consider racism. But, to ignore the reality of life only serves to hurt a child in the long run.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I recently read this book for my English class and found it to be utterly wonderful! This book really made me think about the differences, and similiarities, of our society from the period the book was set in to the present time. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to read a good book.
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Summary: A Moral Guide
Review: To Kill A Mockingbird tells a wonderful and compelling story about the characters. Beyond the story, however, the true value of the book lies in its moral framework. Atticus Finch serves as a model for human decency and dignity in a world that far too often lacks these traits. By looking for the inherently good qualities within even the poorest or socially marginalized of his clients, Atticus Finch personifies the true goal of his profession, which is to provide each person with equal standing and dignity before a jury of his peers.
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Summary: Never to be forgotten
Review: Scout is just a normal girl living in a sleepy southern town, until her lawyer father takes the case of a black man accused of rape, and her life is thrown into turmoil. Compassionate and exiting, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird explores human behavior; kindness and cruelty, innocence and guilt, love and hatred, humor and sorrow. This novel gave me a better insight to prejudice and life in the south during that era, and left a lasting impact I will never forget.
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Summary: Highshool Classic
Review: I first read this book in grade 10 English class I found it to be a realistic and ideal book to be read and talked about to teenagers, it faces them with the facts and realism of racism and discrimination towards people that still continues today I feel this is a great book to be read and talked about in class and should be for as long as racism and discrimination is out there.
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