To Kill a Mockingbird : The 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

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Summary: A book very true to its name
Review: I read this book when I was a freshman in High School. I enjoyed it a lot b/c it showed the discrimination down in the south in those days. Stuff like that still happens today, but probably not as much as when it happened then. My favorite character was probably Jem Finch, b/c he was a good character, and always looked over for Scout. Scout, I liked a lot because she was the narrator, but told such an indepth story of what it felt like living in that prejudice town. As for Boo Radley, he was a good character as well. You just had to know who he was before you made any comments about him. All in all, this was one of my favorite books because no one ever has a fair life, and in this story is it true.

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Summary: GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRREEEEEEEAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT
Review: Harpee Lee has proven to america that great literasture exists. In this novel I found myself crying, suprised, laughing and in awe at the ending. I was shocked at the way the world could have actually treated someone becasue the color of their skin but at the same time be unbearably sick that not many protested it. In many ways it made me laugh, the several attempts the children made to try and get Boo Radley out of the house and the stories that they seemed so facinated over(especially the one about Boo stabbing his father in the knee as if nothing and then just continuing his normal life). Lastly I was in shock because after all the evidence brought to the jury they still seemed to find the black man guilty. This book proved to be amusing when Boo finally came out and the son was not around to see him. I must admit that I also cried when the old lady died and the son was trying to stay mad at her for making him read to her but couldn't because before she died she made ammends. This is a great, classic, novel and would read it to my children or just for my own pleasure in a second

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Summary: To Kill A Mockingbird is excellent because...
Review: To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is an excellent novel. I found it touching, sorrowful, and humorous. It is about two children's experiences with prejudice and racism as they grow and mature in a small southern town. Their father, Atticus, is one of the few open minded people in Maycomb, their town. He is appointed to judge a black man in a case where the black is charged with the rape of a white woman. Even though Atticus does his very best, reason and truth can not hold out over racism and hatred. However, the trial is not the only focus of the book. Another important theme is that of "Boo Radley," the town recluse, who has not been seen in years. The children, Jem and Scout (Scout is Jem's little sister), are interested in seeing Boo, and try several times to give him a note or look in his shutters to see him. At one point in the story, soap dolls and other presents show up in a knothole in a tree for the children. One of the important parts of the story is when Scout and Jem see their father, Atticus, who they percieved as old and useless, shoot a mad dog that is coming down their street, thus learning that he "was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his day." All in all, this book, with its themes of growth and maturity, hatred, pride, and love is one of the best that you could read.

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Summary: Great
Review: It was a really excellent book. It let us all who read it look again at the world through the innocent eyes of a child. Childhood is the most beautiful thing and this story let me re-live my own.

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Summary: very slow going...but adds a special flavor into the book...
Review: it mainly talks about an Alabama family's life, conflicts with others in the old times...majority of the book are descriptions, a little action every once a while...I didn't seem to enjoy it very much...it's a school assignment...

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Summary: Here is a book of justice, unjustice and discrimanation.
Review: This is a story of a girl named Scout who was 6, a boy named Dill who is 7, a boy by the name of Jem who is 9, there fathers name is Atticus and Boo Radley,a mysterious man who lives next door to Scout and Jem. This happened in a little town in the south during the 1930's. A black man was put on trial for raping a woman. atticus was the black mans lawyer. The black mans name was Tom Robinson. A few months after the trial the father of the woman who had been raped attacked Scout and Jem. You have to read the book to hear the rest.

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Summary: To Kill A Mockingbird
Review: Well I'm in middle school and I'm reading this book. So far it is a great book. We are in the 8th chapter of the book and so far I love it. I think everyone should read it.

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Summary: Everybody should read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is the story of a white family living in the rural south during the 1930s. This family is faced with many challenges in such a short span of time. The reader gets to see how the family grows both together and apart and also how it copes with its day to day life. This book deals with such issues as racism, neighborhood togetherness and the bonds that either grow or are lost between parents and children as they grow together. This book focuses on the strength of the family institution and it gives insight into the way we (and the world at large) were. Life has definitely changed since this book was written 37 years ago, but in the same respect, it has changed many people who have read it. This is that people for ages to come will both love and enjoy.

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Summary: Best Literature,ever!! Harper Lee is a master!!
Review: A strangely intriguing book about a small, quiet town that explodes when a negro is charged with rape and defended by lawyer,Atticus Finch. This book has it all. A story about human dignity, life, and conscience, To Kill A Mockingbird will forever be a timeless classic. The lessons that lie within will stay with you long after the book is finished!! C.S.H.

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Summary: Leasons
Review: I find this book a great example of clsic littiture is that it has the childhood of a young girl named scout she has a tom boy additude and is hard to relize shes a girl.This book teaches a leason wich is to treat every one as equals and not to dicimateThis book has bin refed to over and over as the peak to lititure and I agree.