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Summary: Quite simply the best book I have ever read!
Review: Your blurb for the book tells us that this is the book that made many of you fall in love with reading. I can't quite say that, since I loved reading before I was given this book by a neighbor when I was about 13 or so (around 8th or 9th grade if I remember correctly). I remember reading it in two days and starting it all over again when I finished it. This was the book that made me take note of writing for what it was rather than for just telling a story. I remember repeating certain phrases that I liked over and over. I also recall that I was reluctant to return it to my neighbor and took some of my paper route money to buy myself a copy which became dog eared over the years. I have since lost it, but have replaced it with a couple of hard cover copies. In any case, I remember being taken with the simplicity of the way Scout told the story and drew me in. The tormenting of Boo Radley by Jem, Scout, and Dill reminded me of similar escapades my friends and I would pull on the Radley-like folks in our own neighborhood...you know, everyone had that "one house" in the neighborhood that had a scary reputation. I'm sure that added greatly to my enjoyment of the book. I also remember the quiet dignity of Atticus and how, inadvertently, Harper Lee taught us all a lesson in tolerance, love, and especially the meaning of family. This book still makes an impression on me nearly thirty years later, and it is the one book I re-read twice a year without fail just for pure enjoyment and to spark those memories of when I first read it. I have yet to read anything like it. My deepest gratitude to Harper Lee for this wonderful book!
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Summary: Very Heartfelt
Review: An excellent book about racism and how a white family helps to combat it. Very heartfelt. A triumph. This book is filled with hopes that we can end bigotry. Harper Lee told a great story that will live on. Highly Recommended
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Summary: SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Good book. A must very read. Good for brain. keep an eye on you eyes when you read thes book!!!
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Summary: Definitely a recommendable!
Review: I originally picked up this book for my 10th grade summer reading list and at my mom's suggestion. At first, the book is rather slow, but carries a good story line; however, once you get past the first hundred pages, things really speed up and you can't put it down. What's more, it is definitely identifiable with reality; everything the kids did is certainly in the realm of what kids do every day. The most sad part of this book is that, although this book was published almost forty years ago, everything in there could still happen today - and by that, I mean everything that had to do with the trial
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Summary: I love this book.
Review: This book tells about two young children growing up in the rural south, while their father, a lawyer, is dealing with a case that will change him, his children, and their town forever. I love the way that Harper Lee twists small details in with larger ones, all the while, keeping the reader's attention. Though the subject of racial discrimination is a tough subject, she deals with it in the easiest way possible. Though the story of Scout, Jem and Dill always seems to be in the spotlight, the reader gets more of a handle on Atticus's story. I think this story should be a national treasure, if it isn't one already
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Summary: "To Kill A Mockingbird-"-What literature is all about
Review: Author Harper Lee captures a large portion of my own childhood in "To Kill A Mockingbird." Like Jem and Scout, I spent a good deal of the late 1950s and early 1960s creating adventures in forbidden places. My friends and I would explore forbidden construction sites while the workers were still there, sneaking into unfinished basements, or entering a church so we could climb up to the steeple, hoping the janitor wouldn't catch us. It might have been as simple as spying on a school janitor, trying to get as close to him as possible without being seen. What I didn't know, and what Jem and Scout didn't know was that our game was spotted by the "victims" long before our adventures were over.
I don't recall what year I first saw "To Kill A Mockingbird" on TV, but it was a Saturday night, and the following Monday I had to go out and buy the book. Over the next five years I must have seen the movie and read the book at least a half a dozen times each. Harper Lee somehow manages to capture a story as if she was there, and makes us feel as if we also were there. Watching the movie, or reading the book is like looking at an old scrap book of memories. This is what good literature is supposed to do, and why this book should be in everyone's home
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Summary: A rare book, suitable for all ages, itself ageless.
Review: To Kill A Mockingbird is the great American novel.
Its characters are solid and believable, moving
fluidly through a finely honed tale of love and
sorrow. We meet Scout, willful, intelligent, thoughtful and
motherless, watched over tenderly by her father,
the quiet and respected lawyer, Atticus Finch. She
is both torment and constant companion to her brother Jem. They are joined one summer by Dil, a
story telling relative of a neighbor. Scout moves through her family, her town, and her story with the inquisitive nature that is
the delight and bane of parents in all ages. She is cared for by Calpurnia, who comes daily to
"do" for the Finch family, though it is apparent
that she is more than domestic help. Jem and Scout and Dil are determined to meet "Boo"
Radley, their mysterious neighbor, whom they have never seen, but imagine to be dangerous and terrifying. When he begins to leave little gifts
for them in the hollow of a tree, Jem is encouraged
to seek information about him, but his queries go unsatisfied. When Atticus Finch accepts an unpopular case, and
actually prepares a defense for a black man, the town and Scout's life are deeply affected. One
summer night, she begins the often painful process
of growing up, when she finds neighbors and friends gathered to lynch Tom Robinson, while her father
stands guard. The little Southern town, so sleepy and gentle to its children, harbors all manner of people, as Scout again finds out one terrifying night, after
a school pageant. She learns about assumptions,
and love, and fear, and the obligations we meet, the contributions we make, if we wish to be
considered truly human. Harper Lee's love for people swells from the pages
of this book. Her characters are exquisitely drawn,
their story is believable and thrilling. It is
an excellent read for children, who will identify
with with Scout and Jem, and for adults, who will
appreciate the plight of Atticus, and the moral
code he displays. If you haven't read it, read To
Kill A Mockingbird. If you have, read it again.
And again. And again.
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Summary: This was one of the geratest books I've read in a long time.
Review: This story was very captivating.As you read the story would just suck you in so much that you just couldn't set it down.It tells of the hardships two young children experience as well as that of a man who,becuase he was mentally retarded,was locked in his attic by his own father as a child.The book tells how the man befriends the children,who are brother and sister,but the father of the man dissaproves so much that he tries to kill the children. The book also goes into great detail of racism in the deep south as a black man goes on trial for raping a young white woman. It was a wonderful book and I would reccomend it to anyone
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Summary: great book and movie
Review: Read this book and see the movie! It's too bad Harper Lee went into seclusion after she wrote this book . Dill was based on her friend, Truman Capote, I believe. Look for Robert Duvall in the movie--might have been his first movie. He had a small but important role. Everyone should read this book--such important and wonderfully evoked ideas
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Summary: A book that can really teach you something about racism
Review: This book has a girl and two boys with an astonishing love for people of all kinds. It taught me how cruel some people can be just because of race, creed, or anything that makes you different. It shows that these things can over-power the justice system and convict someone as innocent as you and me. The man, Tom Johnson, WAS like a mockingbird. He never bothered people, he simply helped them. The thanks he got from the girl he helped was being sentenced guilty of raping the her and in the end he was killed. I think this can teach anyone to think in all fairness and if we absorbe in this cruelity we can eventually change our ways. It's a must read. I loved it
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