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Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird - quite ok
Review: The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930's. The whole story is told by a little girl called Scout who tells her growing-up and what happened in that time. The novel is about different "Mockingbirds", for example Boo Radley who is locked in the Radley's house and is a kind of monster or scapegoat for the people. The children invent stories about him, but later he saves their lifes. Another Mockingbird is Tom Robinson, a black man who is accused of having raped a white girl. He is innocent but the jury sentence him to death. He dies while trying to escape from prison. Atticus, the father of Scout, defends Tom Robinson, so he is also a Mockingbird because the society is against black people and attacks him and his family.
The first part of the book is very boring but interesting for people who are interested in society and people with their problems. I had to force myself to read the first part because I am not very interested in every detail of the society and the black-white contrast. The first part is necessary for the second part, but it could have been shorter.
The second part is very exciting and interesting because the trial and threats and so on are described. People who are interested in dective stories will like the second part most.
The novel itself is narrated very well and detailed, so you can identify with Scout. Besides, it is very interesting to see how Scout and Jem get older and how their relationship becomes different.
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Summary: Review "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Review: The novel "TO Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is a drama that takes place in a southern state of the USA, Alabama, in the 1930's. The protagonist and also the narrator is a young girl named Scout. Her brother Jem also belongs to the round characters because he plays an important role throughout the story and he is the one Scout starts to talk about at the beginning of the novel.
The two children develop during the story. They learn about the coexistence of good and evil, justice and injustice. They have to experience that not all principles Atticuc has taught them as acceptance and tolerance is followed by all people in town.
Living according to Atticus's advice "putting oneself in one's shoes" Scout and jem discover that sometimes you have to change your opinion about a person when you get to know this person, for example the fact that Arthur "Boo" Radley is not the dangerous monster but a man who rescues two children.
In my view it was an intersting and detailed written novel. Especially the chapters where Atticus defends the innocent black man Tom Robinson are very exiting. I think it is good to tell teh story by a first-person narrator because you learn about the feelings and emotions. Another aspect of this is that you can also see the changes in the narrotor's behaviour because he is part of the story.
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Summary: Review
Review: The siblings Jean Louise, called Scout, and Jem Finch grow up in the south states of America during the 30`s in a society with blacks and poor families. In the small town Maycomb where they live, blacks are made scapegoats for everything going wrong there. When their father Atticus , a lawyer, has to defend the black man Tom Robinson, who should have raped a white farmer`s girl Jem and Scout are confronted with hate and prejudices of many white people in Maycomb. During their father`s case they become older and they begin to understand a lot of things. Jem and Scout learn many things and behaviours from their father but the most important thing they learn is that you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.The book "To Kill a Mockingbird" shows racism in the southern states of America. Through Scout`s eyes and her point of view the reader gets to know how the society was during the 30`s. This book is really worth reading.
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Summary: Harper Lee - To kill a Mockingbird
Review: The story of the book "To kill a mockingbird" is told by the maincharacter Scout Finch. Her father is a lawyer who defends a black who is accused of raping a white girl.There's just one big problem: Nearly the whole town is full of racism and treats blacks unfairly.
You do not really know what to expect when reading the titel "To kill a mockingbird". What you may associate with this titel is death, murder etc. It's not wrong. Harper Lee's novel is about racism in the 1950's.
This has always been a striking topic throughout American History. Therefore it often has been presented in many films and other books. But to kill a mockingbird is one of the most interesting ones;
- many exciting conflicts and events between ethic groups
-detailed presentation of persons etc.
But the best is to get your own imagination by reading this novel!
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Summary: Review About "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Review: The novel "To kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is about a young girl Scout, who tells the story and grows up during the novel. Important persons in the novel are her father Atticus, her brother Jem, Calpurnia, who is the cook of the family and a substitute mother for Scout, and Tom Robinson. For Atticus, equality and honesty is very important. He defends Tom Robinson a black man because he`s accused of raping a white girl. Blacks aren`t very respected and it`s difficult for Atticus to defend him. They all live in a small town in South America called Maycomb. The book is divided into two parts. Part one tells about Scout and her family and life in Maycomb. This part isn`t very interesting to read. Often it seems a little boring because there are some parts which are told very detailed. Part two is the part where the main part begins and where the real action is shown. On the cover of the book you got the information that the book is about rape. When you read the first part you look forward to it and in part two it begins, eventually. It is very interesting to read this part and you get to know a lot of information about a trial in this time.
The book shows the life of the 1930`s and the segregation between whites and blacks.
All in all you can say that it is interesting to read the book. The book gives you information about the 1930`s and the life at this time. When you read it you understand many things better you`ve heard of before.
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Summary: Harper Lee`s novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Review: Harper Lee`s novel "To kill a Mockingbird", which he won the Pulitzer Prize for, is written through the eyes of a young girl called Scout. She lives with her older brother Jem and her father Atticus Finch, whose profession is to be a lawyer in a small village, Maycomb in Alabama (south of the USA). As her father has to defend a black man, who is accused to have raped a white girl, whose father is often drunk and violent, the children Jem, Scout and a little boy called Dill, who visits his aunt in Maycomb only in the summer-holidays, get involved into the real life of prejudices against minorities, especially blacks and irrationality of adult opinions about social classes and social differences.
This very authentic novel by a very talented author with such a lovely sense of humour, sarcasm and excitement shows the real life of the 1930s in the south of the USA, where equality of black and white people was an unreachable aim. To get more information, read the whole novel, which is really worth reading.
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Summary: Harper Lee- To Kill A Mockingbird
Review: The book "To kill a mockingbird" which was written by Harper Lee is about a black man who is blamed for raping a white girl.
The whole story is told by a girl called Scout and in the cause the story the reader gets to know how the girl is growing up and he gets to know some important things of Scouts childhood.
The story takes place in a quiet old town called Maycomb which is full of racism.
Scouts father Atticus is a lawyer and he defends the black man called Tom Robinson who is blamed for raping a white girl and that is why Atticus and his family get into trouble.
The first part of the book is difficult to understand, because you don't really get "into" the story and because of this the story seems not to be very interesting on the first view.
But if you go on reading, the book is getting more and more interesting and you can see that it's worth reading this book.
The whole story seems to be realistic and the reader could think that the story really took place and that's perhaps a reason why Harper Lee's book was sold more than 30.000.000 times and won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Summary: To Kill A Mockingbird
Review: In the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" Harper Lee describes how the two young children Jem and Scout Finch are growing up in the Deep South during the thirties. Through their eyes you see how the society of a small town called Maycomb treats blacks and uses prejudices. So a black man named Tom Robinson is charged with the rape of a white girl. You get to know the injustice of this time.
The novel is quite funny and interesting - Your own fault if you don't read it.
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Summary: Review of To Kill a Mockingbird
Review: In Maycomb, a small town in the south of the USA, Jean Louise, her brother Jem and their friend Dill spend their most exciting summer in their young life. While they discover their mysterious neighbourhood, Jean Louise and Jem's father, called Atticus, has to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, who is charged with the rape of a white girl. So Atticus gets into trouble with the society which has prejudices against Blacks.
The book is very recommendable because it shows how young children grow up in a town full of prejudices. After some time they learn how to behave in such a situation and get great civil courage. So they loose their naive view of life and their imagination of justice.
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Summary: To Kill A Mockingbird
Review: In the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" Harper Lee describes how Scout and Jem, two children of the lawyer Atticus Finch, are growing up in Deep South during the 30`s.
Atticus Finch has to defend a coloured man called Tom Robinson, who is charped with the rape of a white girl.
In the book there are shown many exciting conflicts between the ethic groups.
Finally you can say that it is a interesting book.
So get your own imagination by reading this novel.
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