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Summary: Very deep and satisfying. I loved it.
Review: To Kill A Mockingbird was about a very deep and sad topic-African Americans vs. Whites. After I had read the book, it took me a minute to get beack into the 1990's. It was one of the very few books that drew my a purfect picture of what it would have been like to live then. The author, Harper Lee, had a way of telling you exactly what was going on through an eight year old girl. The emotions of the girl, Scout, were perfectly seen and there was never any confusion about any thing at all. On the whole, this book was VERY good, but it reached right into your soul. I'd say: GO READ IT!
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Summary: The BEST book ever
Review: This book is truly magnificant. No words can describe. Like many other people, the only reason why I started to read it was for an English assignment. At first I thought it was going to be really boring, but I was soon proven wrong. Even the first chapter was interesting. Harper Lee is truly a talented person. This book it totally original and creative. If you haven't read it yet, then I strongly advise you to read it. Once you start, you won't be able to put it down. The only regret I have was that I didn't read it earlier. So READ IT, HECK, BUY IT!
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Summary: The Best Book Ever!
Review: When I read this book for the first time as a young girl, I didn't understand most of the symbols the author used and I didn't think the book was well written. When I went back and read it in high school, I could not help but feel that I was in Maycomb, Jem was my brother, Atticus, my father. This book places you not in a time, but in a common sense of emotion shared by all human beings. To Kill A Mockingbird is a timeless classic that should be shared by all.
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Summary: Idealism at its best
Review: This classic is one of those "required" novels that young people will be surprised to find they actually enjoy. This is mainly because the narrator, Scout, is such a likable tempestuous girl whose unflinchingly honest opinions are often as amusing as they are truthful. As the novel begins, Scout is a 6-year-old attending school for the first time. Her teacher is a newcomer to Maycomb, and although her methods of teaching frustrate Scout, her father Atticus explains that one never really knows a person until he walks around in that person's skin. This theme of "putting oneself in another's place" echoes throughout the novel, as Scout clumsily continues to ridicule or fear people who are different than she. One of these people is a mysterious neighborhood recluse named Boo Radley. Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill naively turn the situation into a game in which they try to get Boo to come out of his house. In the meantime, they create their own idea of what Boo must look like, and the composite they come up with is a seven-foot ogre who eats raw animals. The kids are unaware of their cruelty in "reenacting" Boo's life, and their insensitivity is a metaphor for prejudice, which stems from people's ignorance, and which is also in abundance among the conservative Southern white folks in Maycomb. The standout character is Atticus, who is a lawyer. His motive is clearly not money, since they live in one of the poorest areas in the country; he is an idealist. Soon he will fight an uphill battle involving a young black man named Tom Robinson, a church-going family man who has nevertheless been accused of raping a 19-year-old white girl. Most of the townspeople are scandalized and pronounce him guilty on the spot, even when it becomes apparent during the trial that the "evidence" doesn't fit the accusation. Tom is almost too saintly as a character, but then, he is more of a symbol than a person--the mockingbird of the title. His reluctance to utter the "unfit" language that the girl's father, Bob Ewell, so readily uses, shows his gentle good breeding. Atticus has repeatedly told Scout that killing a mockingbird is a sin, because they do no harm to anyone. Scout sees how Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and even Atticus at times, fit into the "mockingbird" theme, and that is the first glimmer of maturity and understanding experienced by her. The book is unique because it encompasses so many emotions: humor, misery, tragedy, indifference to others' suffering, loneliness, nobility, understanding, bravery, and acceptance. Scout herself is as feisty a heroine as any recent tomboys; she refuses to repress herself, even when she is told to be "a lady". Atticus is almost god-like in his idealism; he is clearly a metaphor for Jesus in his lack of materialism and determination to seek justice at all costs. Jem, Scout's older brother, is so naive in his idealism that he, too, is wounded like the "mockingbird"; he did not realize that prejudice is so deep that no amount of logic can instantly dispose of it. Dill is the classic "child orphan" who is also wounded in his own way--emotionally. Mayella Ewing, Tom's accuser, is also a mockingbird in a sense--she was so mistreated, abused, and lonely, without any friends or confidantes, that she inspired the pity of a black man--an unforgivable sin on Tom's part, as far as the majority of Maycomb was concerned. There are so many noble and spiteful characters that the reader will not be bored; this book is truly an inspiration for all.
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Summary: This is a masterpeice of american literaure.
Review: This book portrays the innocence of a child and the predjudice that a child has to find out. I loved this book and recomend it to anyone. This book is truly a work of art
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Summary: One of the best books I 've ever read
Review: I began reading To Kill a Mockingbird as an assignment at school thinking it would be boring. But the characters and their lives just pull you into it and you in one way or another become a part of it. This is one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time and I think everyone should read it
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Summary: An American Classic
Review: A wonderful friend of a book that I revisit at least yearly. A true American masterpiece, one of the best books of this century
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Summary: after putting this book down i viewed life differently
Review: I am 10 years old and i understood this book. it wasn't the least bit complex. And i didn't have to read this book but my mother said i'd like it. It started out a little boring, but when you get to those action packed parts, you really start to think. And some people thought it was for "mature aduldts".
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Summary: If i could give this book more stars, I would.
Review: This was simply the GREATEST novel ever writen. Harper Lee shows her talent of getting poeple hooked on books and want them to turn the pages and see what's going to happen next.
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Summary: Hmmm......how could I rate this book? maybe 5 STARS!
Review: I have read it twice and am currently reading it for my english class. Harper Lee goes into so much depth of childhood it is amazing. From the perspective of a 6 year old (in the beginning) and later as she grows up and matures. If you look closely, you can identify multiple allusions to the bible; for example, Atticus is a Christ figure. Everything he does is morally, ethically, and what-ever-else-you-could-think-of correct. I cannot claim responsibility for this finding, though. My excellent teacher brought it to my attention. Back to the point, this book is so full of morals and themes that it is mezmorizing. This could teach us all many valuable lessons. READ IT! You can thank me later.
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