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Summary: Very good, even a death metaller like me enjoyed it
Review: When I read this the first time round I wasn't too entertained. The fact that it was for school made it even more of a drag. However, in preparation for the exam I knew that I had to re-read it if I wanted even the slimmest chance of passing - and I totally got it that time. This is a brilliantly written novel looking at racism in the deep south America around the 1930s. All the apparently average events are told in a light that makes them entertaining. There are so many hidden meanings, opinions and explanations (ex. when Scout describes Boo Radley it's not at all accurate because it's through a childs eyes - but that isn't made apparent) that you will need to read it a few times before you understand it all.There are a few things that I don't like about the book though:- Atticus Finch is representive of everything that is good and virtuous - which makes him totally unbelieveable. Do you know anyone who let some old woman treat his children like dirt coz she's ill? As there was a black-white division, Harper Lee rarely if ever mixed with black people in her childhood and this is apparent by her generalised descriptions of the black people compared to her detailed descriptions of other white people. However, those dislikes aside, this is a thoroughly enjoyable book. Not completely my thing, hence only 4 stars, but very good.
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Summary: When you write the best,...
Review: The only book that Harper Lee ever wrote. Good enough for me!
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Summary: A essential if you are reading the book in a class
Review: If you are in school and are reading this book in class then this is a essential item. I did not get the cliff notes for myself someone ales got them for me and I dint even think i needed them but they really helped me. Not to just understand the book but also were the author was coming from to. It really helped me and I highly recommend this.
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Summary: Read it NOW!
Review: What an excellent book! This story of a small southern town torn by a young girl's accusation of assault is one of the best books I have ever read and deserves every award and accolade it has received. I just wish Ms. Lee would write more books.
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Summary: A Masterpiece of American Literature
Review: Every year I re-read this book. It's one of those captivating novels that you just can't put down. Ms. Lee's narrative voice is charming and graceful. As a writer, after reading this book you can't help saying to yourself, "I wish I could write like that!"
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Summary: Humanitarian Classic
Review: As a student in high school I browsed this book with little enthusiasm and look back on that callous transgression as a bitter mistake. Now as a literature instructor I have read many novels, both new and old; I have not yet uncovered a text so rich in revelations of the common thread of humanity. I now teach this book as the core of a Civil Rights unit, dealing primarily with the 60's era in the united States. Excellent comparisons can be made between Ghandi's speech on "Peacful Protest" and Martin Luther King's passionate, "I Have a Dream" speech. If you let this one get by you, please go back and read it!
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Summary: A good book worthy of being a classic
Review: Its a grate book and it is worthy of bein a classic. But it only got good towrds the end. The begining was so boring I could hardley stay awake, the middle was charming but did not make my thirst for something more go away. The end was when I was finally satisfied but that was only four or five chapters out of a book that has 31 chapters. I say take it or leave it or better yet only read this book if you have to but if you have a choice in the matter leave it.
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Summary: American Literature at it's Best
Review: To Kil a Mockingbird is the heart felt classic of three children growing up in Alabama during a time when all men were not created equal. It is the story of the experiences of a young woman while wathing her father courageously defend a man accused of rape, but more importantly by a middle age white man. This is an American classic-a novel that takes its readers deep down into what society was like during Scout Finch's time. To Kill A Mockingbird is an absolute must for all book-lovers!
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Summary: Just Standing on the Radley Porch Was Enough
Review: Harper Lee has done such a fantastic job bringing to life the Finches, the town of Maycomb and boogie men--real and imagined--that one feels a little like graduation when the final page is turned. For this reader, the most emotional part of this terrific, terrific piece of work comes as Atticus is leaving the courtroom after Tom Robinson's guilty verdict. The reverend for the black community whispers to Scout, "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing." How many of us would hope that our life's work would command such respect? Standing on the Radley porch at the novel's closing moments, Scout gives a stirring retrospect of the last three years--she had never seen her town from this angle before and so, sees her life in a different perspective with one season giving way to another: Autumn again and Boo's children needed him.
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Summary: Melodramtic degredation of the South
Review: Looking for a sappy, cliched, novel to read? One predictable as most young-adult books and more degrading than harlequin romances? Well, To Kill a Mockingbird is your book. In this novel, all Harper Lee gives as a theme is "life isn't fair." I think most of us couold have figured that out without a book that should have started where the first "part" ended. Ms. Lee merely portrays a terrible, biased, southern society that seemingly places its main goal on ruining everyone elses life. Her female characters are flat, simple-minded women. Wether or not this is due to its setting is irrelevant. Lee places guilt on a group of people instead of individuals (the Ewells) as it should be. Thank God Ms. Lee only wrote this book; surely her next would degrade society even further. I'm sure it too would be deemed a classic as long as it dealt with politically correct subjects that are far too worn out to remain interesting.
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