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Summary: Fascinating: From A Child's Eyes
Review: I have recently finished Harper Lee's, To Kill A Mockingbird. It is a wonderful book written from the eyes of a child, putting you in her world. Scout and Jem are two very well developed characters that you see grow and mature through the three year time span in which the novel covers. Their father, Atticus, is a great example of how the perfect parent should be. He treats the children as young adults; allowing them to make their own decisions. Just reading about the children's mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley, brought back many childhood memories. I truly enjoyed the beginning when all that Jem, Scout, and Dill wanted to do was sneak a peak at Boo. Although the book takes a turn into another direction with Tom Robinson's trial, the ending joins both plots together, making one brilliant masterpiece. I recommend it for anyone who had a curiousity when they were younger.
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Summary: A Mockingbird Lover
Review: I recently finished Harper Lee's remarkable novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I fell completely in love with it. This wonderful book really takes you deep into the truth of our human identity. It shows love, hatred, cruelty, and kindness all through the eyes of a child leaving you with many emotions and thoughts. Harper Lee's way of writing really attracted me. One thing I liked was that you are demanded to use your imagination. Not everything is written right out for you. You really have to think about what the character's appearance is, dream about what will happen next, etc. The ending is an example of this. It is not complete. It leaves you with many questions running through your head that only you can answer. I also enjoyed the way Harper Lee broke the book into two totally different ideas, with the same significance, and brought them into one at the end. I learned and understood many new aspects of life by reading this book. Harper Lee has a point to make and she does it very well. I would recommend it to anyone who is ready to sit down and really read a great book.
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Summary: Five stars is not enough!
Review: Harper Lee's novel is undoubtedly my favorite book of all time. I don't know one single person who has not liked it. I have read it about three times and I feel like Scout, Jem, Atticus, Dill, and even Boo Radley, the mysterious loner of the story, are people I have known and loved always. This book is certainly one of the best American novels ever written, and certainly the greatest American book of the twentieth century. Not reading this book is a tragedy. The character development and the emotional current of the book will penetrate your heart and mark you forever. I know you will never, ever forget the powerful message of the book if you allow yourself to be attached to what, in my opinion, are the most well-developed, strong collection of souls in an incredibly touching story that takes place in the American South. Read it, fall in love with it, read it again, and fall in love even more. The book is a masterpiece and an privilege to read.
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Summary: Color Me Impressed
Review: When I sat down to read "To Kill a Mockingbird" I thought I was in for another long, boring, reading assignment. On the contrary, I found myself so impressed by the novel I was soon reading it in my spare time. The childhood tale of 'how Jem broke his arm' intrigued me to the very end. My interest in the eerie neighbor, Boo Radly, soon gave way to the shocking Ewell trials. At the end, each detail came together in a clever ending. Strategic foreshadowing and vivid description, although not overdone, contributed to the novel's appeal.
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Summary: To Kill A Mocking Bird By Harper Lee
Review: I liked this book alot I thought it was really good, The beging was a little boaring but as you get to reading it, it starts to get really interesting! Harper Lee did a good job at developing the characters in this novel.
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Summary: To Kill a Mockingbird Review
Review: I recently finished this book and I really enjoyed it. The description of the feelings and scenery is wonderful, but doesn't overly describe, so there's a lot of legroom for you imagination. The characters Jem and Scout were fully three dimensional and grew with the book. Atticus was the perfect parent, and always led his children in the right direction and told them the truth without being harsh. Overall the book, was absoulutly great, but there was only one thing I didn't like. After the book was done, it leaves the reader wondering what happens to Jem, Scout, Dill and Boo. Does Scout marry Dill? Does Jem decide to be a lawyer like Atticus? Other than that, I found the book to be excellent
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Summary: Excellent Piece of Literature
Review: Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful piece of literature that brings meaning to it's title. About a little girl along with her father and brother surviving small town life along with discrimination and poverty in her quest to make the small town believe in equality and her hilarious attempt to bring a man out of the depths of his hiding.
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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: I first read this book in fifth grade, as an assignment for school. Now I'm a freshman in high school, and I've read it three or four times since! This book is good for anyone, but it depends on their maturity level. The content was a little heavy for fifth graders, but as you get older, you really start to like it more. I'd recommend it to anyone!
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Summary: The Most Overrated Book of the Century
Review: I'll admit this was an assigned book for school, but please don't misjudge me. I have read other books Anna Karenina of my own accord and loved them, and I am not criticizing this book because of bitterness of being forced to. I actually had not heard much about To Kill a Mockingbird before I read it, due to the fact that I tend to read nineteenth century literature, and I started this book with a fairly open mind. As cliche as this story is, I thought that the plot had great potential for making a powerful book, but Harper Lee's approach to writing it seemed a mismatch. The powerful theme served merely as a backdrop to a far less interesting story. There are points at which one can fairly hear the plot wheezing as it is being choked by Lee's attempts at cuteness and nostalgia. The descriptive passages were rather crude, and at times the language became practically unintelligable. Am I the only person who despises dialect? There are two things I thought of that can affect the way people criticize this book. One of these is fear of disliking a book at the risk of being labeled a Philistine. The other of these is which books are read immediately before reading a book. The latter affected me in particular, as I was reading Madame Bovary alongside this book. The lack of any elegance and refinement, which is so abundant in Madame Bovary, made the primitive style of the writing even more displeasing.
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Summary: we were all innocent at one time.
Review: One cannot possibly read this book without thinking back to the innocence of their own childhood. Remember when people were people? And we couldn't understand why grown-ups talked about "certain people" ... none of it made sense. We were sure that all grown-ups were screwy. The remarkable thing about To Kill a Mockingbird is that Lee captures the moment when kids are shoved into a harsh, unforgiving environment in which they don't at first understand. With each turn of the page, the Jem and Scout sink further into the ills of society and drift farther away from the innocence they once knew. I love this part in chapter 20- Scout:
I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn't care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why".
"Because you're children and you can understand it," he said.
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