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Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a compelling story about childhood, and growing up. Based in the 1930's, To Kill a Mockingbird delivers a realistic, heart warming story. This is a truly intriuging book, that the reader wil not want to put down. The novel goes through the childhood of Jem and Scout Finch, and tells the high and low points of their youth. The book starts off with Scout fighting at school, goes through the trial of a falsley accused black man, and ends with a social hermit having his few wonderful astranged moments in the spotlight. To Kill a Mockingbird will captivate all readers, from children to adults, this is truly an amazing book. The story is set in Maycomb, Alabama during the depression. The novel revolves around the Finch family and their experiences. As Jem and Scout the hermit, Boo Radley, Atticus, Jem and Souts father, defends Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of rape, in court. The awful truth becomes discovered about Bob Ewell, as Jem and Scout learn the unpleasentries of life. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, will bring the reader in and not let them go until they have reached a fulfilling ending.
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Summary: Who'da thought it would be that good!
Review: Being a 17 year old teenager I thought that Harper Lee's epicnovel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' would be rather boring. Growing up inan era where science fiction rules every teenagers imagination, I was suprised to find that I enjoyed reading such a classic book. Harper Lee's narrator is young Scout Finch who is a fiesty, outgoing, self reliant young girl who witnesses the hate that the people of Maycomb have towards someone or something that is different from them. Witnessing the telling of the story in a childs eyes shows how innocent and not aware of prejudice children can be. Harper Lee has written a classic novel about hate, racism, class, love, and growing up. Who'da thought it would be that good!
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Summary: Beautiful and touching story through the eyes of a child
Review: I just finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird and found it both gripping and moving. I could not put it down. It is said that "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" because mockingbirds don't hurt anyone, they just sing for you. This title and theme is weaved throughout the novel: when Scout is about to kill an insect and Jem stops her because "it's not bothering you"...when Tom Robinson is on trial and his self esteem and his humanity is killed by the ignorant members of the towneven though all he ever did was help people..and finally the resolution of the story surrounding Boo Radley.This is a fantastic read. I recommend that student take the time to read it instead of renting the film because it isn't hard to get through, the language is very straightforward and you won't find yourself frustrated and tearing your hair out (especialy if you dislike reading).
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Summary: A Memorible Classic
Review: I learned so much about human nature from this book. Throughout the entire novel I laughed, cried, and fell in love with the three main characters, Gem, Scout, and Atticus. I would highly reccormend this book for anyone who loves to read about real life situations. This novel is one that I will surely have in my life always.
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Summary: Mockingbird
Review: This book is excellent. I just finished reading it for class. I had always thought it was going to be a boring book but alas I was wrong! I think it's one of the classics and everyone should read it. It deals with racism in the 1930's and a man, Atticus, has to defend an African American man unfairly convicted of rape. Meanwhile his two children are finding out what life really is like. (at least that's what I think :) You have to read this book.
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Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is an interesting and adventurous book. Simply about a small and forgotten town, Harper Lee makes you never want to put it down. Jem and his younger sister, Scout, go through many little adventures together, like seeing Boo Radley, watching the court in which Tom Robinson is trialed, and of course, getting attacked. Atticus, their father, has to make many hard decisions about racism and other things. If you read this book, you'll never look at a father to children relationship the same way again.
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Summary: A Book To Savor For A Lifetime
Review: I first read this wonderful novel as a teenager while waiting for the movie starring Gregory Peck to be released that same summer. Again and again over the intervening decades since have I pulled down my hard-bound copy to read in whole or in part on a rainy afternoon because of its sheer drawing power. In today's complex world one tends to lose perspective as to how explosive, provocative, and sensational the issues of cross-race rape was in the early 1960s when Miss Lee's novel was originally published. Yet despite the sizzling if subdued sexual content and the divisive issues surrounding the book, it quickly rose to best-seller status and easily delivered the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Harper Lee with this, her first novel. It is probably the character of Atticus Finch who deserves most of the credit for the novel's enduring popularity. Seldom has such a quietly heroic figure been so favorably and memorably described in such loving detail in an American novel as is fortyish Atticus Finch, the highly principled and somewhat befuddled widower-lawyer trying his level best to raise his two young children alone in the midst of the deep South during the early years of the Depression. As daughter Scout remembers, there was little that Atticus couldn't charm or talk his way out of. And, as played by Gregory Peck in the memorable movie, this thoughtful, moral, and courageous man became a model of modern American manhood for all who read or watched his story unfold. Of course, the other characters are also lovingly and carefully drawn and described, and the way in which the importance and relevance of the mockingbird parable is sown at a number of different levels with a number of different characters is also one of the enduring treasures found within the pages of this book. Whether considering Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, Scout, Jem, or Atticus himself, we all come to better understand the ways in which all the individuals' stories and fate are intricately and inextricably interwoven with each other and into the fabric of a particular time and place. Thus, we see the degree to which Atticus relies and depends on their black governess, and the degree to which he is concerned for her welfare as well. On the other hand, we watch as Bob Ewell acts despicably to mistreat people of color. There are volumes of wisdom herein regarding the treatment of human beings and the problems associated with trying to live in any particular place at any specific time. So well and accurately drawn are the characters of this fable of the life and times of Scout Finch in "To Kill A Mockingbird", that one can only hope it continues to be widely read and appreciated as a modern American classic.
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Summary: Inspiring
Review: This book is maginfant, Atticus is such a smart, wise man and Scout is so incoent. It is so deatailed that it 'takes your breath away'. I LOVE THIS BOOK.
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Summary: Mediocre!
Review: The very good writing offers you a good insight into the wee town of Maycomb,in the deep south of the thirties. A good book but you will get very bored sometimes if your a teenager like me!
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Summary: Perhaps the most underrated piece of American fiction
Review: This is the best book I have ever been assigned to read. I have re-read it 5 times since it was required in my freshman year of high school. This isn't just a story about race or about growing up in the South, it's a chronicle of courage and justice and truth, from the eyes of a little girl. Please don't buy the Cliff's Notes... You may miss the chance to find the book you will claim as your favorite for years to come.
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