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Summary: The best book ever!
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird is probably one of the greatest books ever written. The novel is morally fantastic. The novel is about a family that lives in the south in a community that is dealing with a controversial racial issue. Scout and Jem are young kids that learn valuable lessons while they are growing up. They know that all people should be created equal. For instance, Scout ventures to a black church and does not think anything about it. Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem's father, represents a black man that has been charged with rape. Clearly, the black man is innocent, and Atticus Finch wants to do the right thing. In conclusion, To Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful book that is full of great moral examples that people should follow. One of the highlights of the book is Atticus Finch saying, "Before you say anything bad about someone, walk a mile in their shoes."
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Summary: Great for Study Guides
Review: In my English class we were required to read this book. Although I did read the novel we were told to complete a study guide with the novel. We were often asked to describe certain characters and the cliff notes helped a lot. Also if I missed a night of the reading it was simple just to scan the cliff notes and then read the novel in detail later. All in all, this cliff notes book was very helpful, but I do recommend that you read the novel because it is great.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: To Kill A Mockingbird is a Classic. There is really no other way to describe it. I decided to read this book for a Grade 9 Book Report and I loved it! The author gives great character personality and keeps them realistic. The plot is amazing: there is always something happening. Some people MIGHT find this book slightly boring at some parts, but overall, it's a really good story! To Kill A Mockingbird does bring up Racial Discrimination in the 19th and 20th Century, but shows this realistically. This is undoubtedly my absolute favourite book! I highly recommend it to anyone in for a Good Read! :)
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Summary: Surprisingly Good
Review: I thought I would hate this book because most "GOOD BOOKS" are books that I hate. But after reading this for my Junior Honors English class, I found that I liked it a lot.
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Summary: Boring
Review: For more than twenty-five years, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee has been universally ingratiated into high school English programs. The repetitious dialogue; unhindered meandering; endlessly and needlessly branching plotline and much dated speech and setting has probably frightened more sophomores out of ever reading for fun than the Great Gatsby and Watership Down combined. But just because forcing teenagers to read a detailed account of growing up in 1930s Alabama is borderline child abuse does not mean there is nothing students can learn about good literature from To Kill a Mocking Bird. The characterization is presented masterfully; the descriptions are vivid; the narration is well done and it truly reflects the trials and tribulations of the time in which was written. To Kill a Mocking Bird is a fine piece of literature, but it's a terribly boring book.
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Summary: Book of the millennium
Review: I laughed and cried on first reading Lee`s mastre piece .This is the book I would refer to when asked to name the best book I have ever read.
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Summary: I just don't see what all the fuss is about
Review: I found this book to be dull, uninspiring, and not particularly well-written. I liked some of the characters, but not enough interesting things occured to keep my attention. I had to read many of the descriptive passages several times to gather their meaning, and the author lets the reader make many assumptions, which are not always correct. I've read a number of excellent classics, but I'm stumped how this could be considered one of them. I realize this is an unpopular opinion, but aside from a few isolated passages, I really didn't find this book to be very enjoyable.
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Summary: An outstanding novel that is entertaining and effective
Review: Harper Lee has written one of the most effective, entertaining and powerful novels in the last 60 years with "To Kill A Mockingbird". The novel about the south that takes place during the depression. Lee takes an unusual yet stirring view, and that is thru the eyes of a young girl named Scout. A brief synopsis of the main theme is that Scout's father is Atticus Finch a lawyer in a small town in Alabama that has to defend a negro accused of raping a white woman. Whether the man did rape the woman is not the point due to the fact that white Southern society of the 1930's... have already judged him guilty.Atticus's arguments in the courtroom and his point of view is mesmorizing and the couragous stand he makes in defense of his client makes this a page turner. Yet again it is thru the eyes of a child who is starting to discover that the world isn't as nice as she once thought. The circumstances that happens to Scout in the novel are funny, sad, and one part is absolutely chilling. The other plots in the novel are effective as well as the supporting character's. I know that others have written... reviews on this novel and its theme of racial injustice. ...[M]y point of the review is to let readers know that this is an effective novel for young adults to read and discover a part of society that had extreme prejudice and another part of society that endured thru tremendous loss and hardship. This is quite a novel and is highly recommended to all young readers.
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Summary: A timeless classic about race and justice
Review: This is the only book Harper Lee ever wrote, which just breaks my heart. Its dry humor, its sensitivity and its lovable characters make it outclass almost every other book I've ever read. I discovered this in sixth grade and have read it literally dozens of times since. Scout is a young, tomboyish girl in Depression-era Alabama. She lives with her widowed lawyer father, Atticus, and her older brother, Jem. Jem and Scout pass the time playing with their friend Dill and trying to persuade the local recluse, Boo Radley, to come out so they can see him. When a black man is accused of raping a white woman, Atticus is given the case -- he is the only lawyer who will make even a cursory attempt to defend the man, who is obviously innocent. He and his children are ridiculed and even threatened, but he uses the situation to teach Jem and Scout about justice and the unimportance of race.
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Summary: A Joy to Re-Read
Review: As it had been about 27 years since I had read this classic, I had forgotten much of the detail of the book. I loved every single page of it this time around and I am sure that I understood it a great deal more than when I was a teenager. This is a remarkably well-written book with humour, pathos and charm, besides its more obvious look at various types of prejudice. The fact that the story is told through the eyes of a young girl gives it a wonderfully innocent appeal but constantly challenges the reader to look at its larger social issues. Despite the fact that it is set in the 1930s, this classic has not aged at all. If you have not read this book at all, get to it; if it has been many years since you have read it, have another look at it - you won't be disappointed.
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