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Summary: A Classic For All To Read
Review: There are few books that comes along that will make you sit down and examine the way you look and fell about people in society, and this is one of them. In this book, Harper Lee tells the story of a society which is filled with rascism and sterotypes. Atticus Finch, a local lawyer, is not like other people in the town and is determined to stand up for what he belives is right. Even if this means putting his family, career, and even his life in danger. This book will also take you back to your childhood and the way that most children look at the world. This book should be required to read because it helps to break down sterotypes in the world. This book has been critized for showing too much racism but unfortunately people get upset when authors show the world its own shame.
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Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird
Review: It was about a little girl named Jean Lousie and her brother Jem. It was when people hated black people. One man got convicted of hurting a girl, and most people thought he didn't get a fair trail since he was black,and he couldn't have hurt her because he had a hurt arm. Why it is called "To Kill a Mockingbird" is, you shouldn't kill something harmless and kind. And they found out that Boo Radley was kind and he saved their lives, but the kids of the town were frightened of him!
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Summary: And your point is?
Review: If you didn't read the back of the book you wouldn't know what it's main point was. Every book has it's problem. But this book didn't seem to have one. You know it's about a man who has to defend a Black man, Tom Robinson, for the accussation that he raped a white woman. But that just seems to be a part in the story.
I mean, the story dragged on and then suddenly this trial pops up. And that goes on for the rest of the story. At the end it's like the trial hardly happened. I've never read a book like this. For example, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was trying to get home right? Well Scout, one of the main characters, just sat on the sidelines the whole story and told what happened. She had no dramamtic effect on the book.
To like this book you have to have a particular taste for this odd book. I honestly don't see how it's such a great book. It's pointless, and useless. I'm sorry to say such things about such a classic book, but when I saw it I was expecting something more intresting. The book title hardly plays a role in the type of book it is. It is mentioned once in the book but only seems to relate to one small part, not the whole story.
I wouldn't reccomend this book to anyone I know. You just have to read it yourself to know what I mean.
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Summary: Enchanting beyond belief
Review: This classic novel by Harper Lee potrays the life in the deep South during the Depression. The themes that this one single book varies from how you should not judge to how cruel racisim can be. The story is told from the view of an eight year old girl, who in her own way learns that human nature has two sides. When a story is told by a child, the innocense simply captives any reader. Jen-Lousie Finch is nothing short of this. Along with her brother Jem and her close friend Dill, they all three conceive numerous plots to bring the town's maniac in to broad daylight.On a more serious note, this story is about a black man who is accused agianst raping a white woman. One of the moral compasses of the story is Atticus Finch. He was appointed to defend Tom Robinson in court. The result of this trail will amaze and shock you. You will meet a wide range of characters. Starting from a morphine addict to a man who is shunned from soceity.On a personal note, I didn't read this story out of choice. It was assigned to our sixth grade class as an extra credit project and to this day I have respected my teacher for having such good taste. As I am sure many have sid before, the only dow side to this beautiful story is that it is the only one that Harper Lee wrote. I am sure we can all forgive her for this because she did it right the first time.
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Summary: Killing mockingbirds are a sin......
Review: "To Kill a Mockingbird" thoroughly deserves it's title as a "classic." With the intriguing manner Lee used to explain the events over two years, as well as showing the maturity in Jem and Scout over those two years, this novel has deep meaning. The title Harper Lee even chose was ingenious. If more people lived by the saying "to kill a mockingbird would be a sin," we would live in more peaceful times. The main plot of the story is good and evil, and how we let our grudges and prejudices blind us from the truth or what's right. A must read - I recommend.
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Summary: My Favorite Book of All Time
Review: I was first assigned to read this book 28 years ago as a freshman in high school.I have since read it at least 4 other times, and each time enjoy it just as immensely as the prior. Harper Lee captures the deep south in the Depression as well as any author I have seen, and there is nary a note a falseness in the entire book. The only negative here is that this is the only book ever written and published by Harper Lee -- you'll keep wishing for another, but she just got it right the first time. To those us you lucky enough to have not yet read "To Kill a Mockingbird", I can only say "get thee to the library or a book store, or simply get it from Amazon". The hours you'll spend reading this book will be among the most enjoyable you'll ever spend.
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Summary: A Great Novel.
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird is a timeless classic by Harper Lee. The book narrates the story of a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, also called ¡°Scout¡±. Lee presented this book through the eyes of Jean Louise.
The story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930¡¯s or so. The plot is about Scout¡¯s father, Atticus Finch (a lawyer), trying to defend Black suspect Tom Robinson for accused of raping a White girl in the Maycomb County of Alabama. The plot incorporates several issues that people were struggling during the time of the story, including racism, injustice, and prejudice. The entire novel circulates around Scout and her family. Many situational conflicts arise, from trying to make Boo Radley come out of seclusion to dealing with family and community difficulties.
Lee did a miraculous job of telling the story through the view of Scout. The characters were depicted hardly by their appearances, but by their personality traits, which showed advanced style in writing. The setting and the time periods had a great impact on the story, as people those days lived quite close to each other and knew their neighbors well. I was amazed how natural and realistic the characters were made. Scout and her older brother, Jeremy (also called Jem), reacted to situations exactly as many of the children now days would act. Almost every character in the story had a crucial role at some point of the story. The character development was beyond imagination. From Dill (Jem and Scout¡¯s best friend) coming to visit the Finch family in the summer, to Jem trying to make it past the Radley¡¯s gate, to Calpurnia (the house cook) scolding the children for not coming home, this piece of literature truly elaborated on pivotal character details. After reading this book, one would think he knows the characters quite well.
Overall, this was a fantastic novel to read and I was truly impressed with the quality of writing and development presented in this story by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird will truly be an American Literature classic for as long as it will be remembered.
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Summary: All superlatives seem inadequate
Review: I'm not sure how much point there is to another review of "To Kill a Mockingbird", since it's already well established as an American classic. But here's my own take on it. The quick plot summary is that a Black man, Tom Robinson, has been falsely accused of raping a white woman in Alabama in the 1930's. Atticus (and like most people, I can think of Atticus only as Gregory Peck) is a lawyer who has been appointed by the court to represent the defendant. The story revolves around how Atticus, his family, and his friends deal with the racial hatreds and other social conflicts that result from his participation in the case. It's hard to imagine how a book can be any more perfect than this one. On every basis - plot, setting, characterizations - it is a smashing success. But I suppose if there is one thing that stands out over everything else in the book, it is the wonderful (and not so wonderful) people who populate its pages. The story is told through the eyes of Atticus's little daughter, Jean Louise (nicknamed "Scout"), who is probably the most realistically appealing child in any novel I have ever read. Lee doesn't over-romanticize the wisdom of a child, as many authors do. Any parent, or anyone who has experience with children, knows that children are NOT unspoiled creatures, free from the prejudices and selfishness that have to be taught by adults. Scout and her older brother Jem are completely natural characters, recognizable to all of us who remember our own childhoods. But because of the circumstances into which they are thrown, the two of them emerge as nothing short of heroic figures. But there are so many other memorable characters that it seems impossible that this novel could be only 323 pages long. There is Scout and Jem's annual summertime friend, Dill. There is the family maid and de facto female head of household, Calpurnia. There is the painfully naive and judgmental Miss Caroline, a recent graduate from ed school who is assigned to teach Scout's first-grade class. There is Boo Radley, the town's mysterious recluse. There is the "white trash" family that started all the trouble with their accusation of rape. Above all, there is Atticus himself, a figure of towering integrity, love, and loyalty. As wonderful as the book is all the way through, I must call special attention to Chapter 15, where the eight-year-old Scout, with simple love and unconscious courage, tames a gang of thugs who have assembled at the local jail to lynch Tom Robinson. (Classical music lovers who read this book might think of the chapter as a literary equivalent of the famous second movement of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto.) In my entire reading life, which covers more than fifty years and thousands of books, I have never read a more moving passage than this one. It is inconceivable that a writer who could create so many memorable characters in so few pages would have confined herself to this one novel as her lifetime output. But she did. So how good is this book? I used to have three all-time favorite novels (Tom Jones, And Ladies of the Club, and Lonesome Dove). Now I have four.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: I had first read this book years ago, probably a homework assignment, and found it very enjoyable. After many years had past, I took the time to re-read it and enjoyed it with a greater depth. It is, simply put, a timeless classic. Harper Lee perfectly catches the time when the bubble of innocence is broken and one becomes aware of the often cruel and unfair ways of the world. A great story with unforgetable charecters.
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Summary: Thank You Harper Lee
Review: There are many reviews here that tell all about this book - so I won't bother with that. However, I am grateful to Harper Lee for giving the world this timeless treasure. Thank you for giving us Scout, Jem, Atticus, Dill, Calpurnia, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. They are characters that will always be treasured in the hearts of people.
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