To Kill a Mockingbird

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Summary: Honest
Review: As this book was an English class assignment I knew that it would be well written with a message. It was. Scout's literal,honest narration brought the effect across fully.

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Summary: a phenomenal book
Review: this is a phenomenal book I love how Lee put it into a childs point of view. When i first read the book i couldn't but it down i recomend this book for teenagers and adults. i am a teenager and totally agree how Jem felt because i am goin through that phase right now. this book is totally awesome and i recomend it. it is on of my very favorites.

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Summary: Society Through the Eyes of Children
Review: I started out with the audiobook version but had to switch over to the book because one of the tapes was damaged. The story in either format was spellbinding and thought-provoking. This book illustrates how the innocent deductive reasoning of children can reveal the most formidable behaviors of society as nothing other than acts driven by ignorance.

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Summary: I strongly recomend this book to you all!
Review: I read this book when I was in high school. I loved it! It contains a fair mixture between fiction and history to make it both interesting and educational. If you enjoy studying details of American history, such as the Great Depression, racism, and the Ku Klux Klan, among others, this book is great for you. However, it doesn't entirely focus on history, making it boring. On the contrary, the author develops a great plot that uses suspense, and a bit of mystery and passion, using historical events as a mere basis. I strongly recomend this book to you all!

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Summary: to kill a mockingbird
Review: my review is short...It is now my most favorite book. It is a book I couldn't put down. I've read it twice in the past year. It also made me cry. It was given to me by someone very special who also treasured this classic. Although it was written many years ago, there are things I still see very real in the south that were in the book. I have now passed it on to my nephew(a recent law school graduate)for him to read. It is a must read.

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Summary: Flawless!
Review: I have just finished this book for (I would estimate) the 12th time since it was originally published in 1960. Its wonderment never ceases. It's too bad, in a way, that Harper Lee never wrote another. On the other hand, how do you improve on perfection?

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Summary: Moving
Review: I was stuck for something to read on a long train journey and my eyes alighted on this book, you know, one of those books i have always 'meant to read' but never got round to. I gave it a shot and didn't put the book down for the whole journey, and most of the rest of the weekend. It is that good. No doubt the plot (coming of age, racism, honour) will be known to you, but it is written in such a simplistic way that it can't help to draw you in. Take some time out of your day and read this book, you will feel better for it and hey, you just might learn something about yourself...

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Summary: Exceptional Novel on Prejudice
Review: To Kill A Mockingbird is an excellent novel about prejudice in the southern Alabama town of Maycomb in the 1930s. Harper Lee shows prejudice with the trial of a black man in which a white lawyer, Atticus Finch (the father of young Scout, from whom which the story is told), is appointed to defend him. Tom Robinson, the black man being falsely accused of rape, and the Finches' neighbor, Boo Radley (an outcast of the community and very taciturn in nature) are the symbols in this novel. In the beginning/middle of the novel Atticus tells Scout and Jem (his children) never to shoot a mockingbird. Jem questions why not and Atticus replies not to because mockingbirds never harm any one or thing, they just sing beautiful music. When Tom Robinson is convicted, it is symbolic of killing a mockingbird. Later in the novel, Boo Radley must kill Bob Ewell because he tried to kill Scout and Jem, however, the sheriff (Heck Tate) makes up a story that Bob fell on his knife, because if he told the community that Boo had killed him, it would have thrown Boo into the limelight and would have also been like killing a mockingbird. I strongly suggest to read this book, it is a wonderful novel.

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Summary: A timeless classic
Review: of course this is a timeless classic of a home town life during the depression. this book is told from the first person persective of scout the youngest child. her father atticus is a lawyer defending a black man in a rape trial wich makes life for her and her brother jem even worse. read this book and realize how they overcame the turbulances of life in this small town.

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Summary: THE PERFECT BOOK
Review: Harper Lee's book is so rich in so many ways that it is truly astounding. I believe that Truman Capote -- a thinly disguised character, Dill -- played a large part in the evolution of the singular narrative voice displayed here -- Lee and Capote were childhood friends -- but never mind. With each reading this moving story sweeps you up, both in the lovely, humorous tales of youth in a simpler time, and in the rush of the rape trial, which confounds you with suspense and real grit. The characters of Atticus, Sout and Jem spring to life on the page -- these are people you wish you knew. But it is that overriding voice, spoken in soft, simple tones, that pulls you in the most. This is Southern writing at its most appealing. There is not a scene conjured up, a character created, or a feeling engendered that does not feel utterly true.