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Summary: This was the best book I ever read!
Review: I really liked this book. The whole plot was great. I was so sad to finish it. I loved the characters. (I am 9)
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Summary: Great
Review: I am in 7th grade and I think this is the best book that I have ever read
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Summary: It was terrific
Review: I thought this book was one of the best books I have ever read. I am a seventh grader and the words were pretty deep. But it taught me that the law system was not fair in the olden days. It makes you mad at the end but I will not spoil it for you.
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Summary: A surprising, thought provoking story.
Review: I was required in a class to read a classic book of my choice. "To Kill A Mockingbird" has been sitting on my book shelf for probably ten years, and I suddenly felt as if this was one of those "great" books that everyone has to read. Well, it was a good book and there were great morals to consider. The plot of the book follows the life of a young, southern, six year old girl. Jem, her brother, who is four years older develops into the young man that is expected of him. Atticus, their father is a lawyer in Maycomb County. The story is set in the 1930's, during the depression when racism was overpopulated in the South. This book made me have to take a personal stand as to what to consider right and wrong. Is prejudice a way of life or is just away to make the inner self feel superior? I asked myself this question over and over throughout the story until an innocent black man was killed for believing in himself and his morals. I also faced the question of what it would be like to live in a small town where everyone knows each other. Jem and Scout had to face the hatred, prejudice, and taunts from their own peers because their father was defending an innocent black man over a guilty white man. Much of the action that took place in this story was surprising to me. It kind of caught me off guard that such young kids would play games about thier own recluse neighbor Boo Radley who eventually leaves us all with a curiosity to know more. I was also suprised of the towns progression through the Depression and how segregation was never questioned. I could not believe that the color of a persons skin can easily take the life of an innocent bystander. Overall this was a fairly easy book to read that read remarkably fast. I would recommend this book only because it gives some sort of an idea of what life was like in the South during turmoil years and how the citizens of this cruel country treated each other.
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Summary: Has Ups and Downs
Review: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a book that I read for an English book report. This books has some good parts and some bad parts. For example, the suthor goes into detail on unimportant events and does not give any details on important events. But I would like to recommend this book to readers that have interest in Southern U.S. History
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Summary: A Wonderful Novel
Review: I wasn't assigned To Kill a Mockingbird for class; I read it by choice and I really believe it's one of the best books I have ever read. Narrated by 6 year-old Scout, reading the book opens your mind to see things exactly as she sees it and feel things the way she feels it. I highly recommend this book to people of all ages. However, if you're too young and feel that you're "forced" to read it, don't expect it to be as good as it really is because you don't know how to appreciate such outstanding literature.
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Summary: another boring school reading assignment
Review: i had to read this book in 9th grade. i heard that it was supposed to be this wonderful american classic, and i actually looked forward to reading it. well, all i'm gonna say is that it sucked. it was just like any other book, nothing special. yes, the prejudice part was good, i think it could show people that we need to accept our differences, but it just wasn't that deep. i got bored after 20 pages. all in all, i was very disappointed and to whoever gets an assignment to read this, good luck.
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Summary: When I Jason Kaiser Read this book I could not put it down.
Review: To Kill a Mocking Bird This unforgettable classic by Harper Lee features a little girl around nine whom throughout this book matures and develops in significant ways. She learns all about prejudiced people through the town's folk when a young black man is accused of raping a young white woman. No matter how innocent the boy who is accused of rape is, the people of the town are so prejudiced that they will not listen. They believe that just because this young man is black, he is guilty beyond a doubt. The reader will also cross some details such as a better understanding of life in general. Scout learns not only by her teacher, or father, but by her brother, town's people, and especially Boo Radley that one must understand something to criticize it. Scout Finch is put into a position of major responsibility in these depressed times in southern Alabama. This book traces her ongoing development in what really is an incredible charge.When Scout Finch first hears about Tom Robinson and the crime he committed, she believes he should be prosecuted for his actions. What she later found out was that her father was defending the man she had so wrongly judged. Predigest was a word that Scout Finch had not ever heard, nor had she felt guilt's for feeling what she did not know was wrong. She was, weather she consciously know it or not, guilty of being prejudiced against black people. When kids at her school called her the daughter of a "Niger Protector" she went home and questioned her father on the matter. Her father being so unprejudiced said" don't use that word, its not right" and that "all people are equal and should not be judged by the color of their skin." He was very serious on the matter and made it very clear that he hoped Scout would be to. "No matter what anybody says to you, don't let them get your goat." From this aspect of the book, The author shows how Scout Finch was just starting to understand the use of race, and prejudiced amount people. When Scout Finch and her brother had to go to a black church due to absence of her father, she is greeted with a surprising welcome. "What you doing bringing white chillin into a Niger church?" One person, Lula, found it very distasteful to bring white children, into a black church. Now most of these people where not insulted to see that Calpurnia had done this, one man even stood up to welcome them. These people, who have been mistreated, insulted, wrongly judged, and over all disliked just because they are black, welcome the children in with no hatred in there mind. The reverend of this church was very friendly to the Finch children and treated them as if they were regular common black children. This is just one incident of how these so wrongly treated people could be so warm to the wrong doers.
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Summary: Be sure to rent the movie
Review: Be sure to rent the movie. It's a classic, and like the book, is on my and many other's top-20 lists.
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Summary: Oh, puh-leeze
Review: I really, REALLY hated this book. Like most people that hate it, I too was forced to read it for English class. I want to start by saying they shouldn't make us read books like this anyway. People can get the wrong idea about racism. But besides that, the whole book is being waaay overestimated. I've read books that are much better (Terry Pratchett, for example,) but they're not manadtory for reading. Down with Big Brother. Ezekiel.
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