This is one of the few books that I "had to" read in school that I liked. It's a fast read and I want to get a copy of it to re-read. Maybe I'll pick up the movie too...
This book spans a couple of years of Scout’s childhood. Taking place in a small Southern town during the Depression, this is both one of the most heartwarming and one of the most heartbreaking stories I’ve read. I love this book. I did when I read it for the first (and only until now) time about ten years ago, and I’m so happy that my love for it didn’t die down when I read it again now. I... read more
This book capsulates what the legal profession should emulate at all times, Virtue, and not the zest to earn the largest fee. Here we see a virtuous lawyer defending the freedom of an innocent man without the benefit of a big pay day. Thrilling, brilliant, and thought provoking!
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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it stT
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Amazon.com Review "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber
"To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's first and only novel, was called Atticus before Lee decided that the title focused too narrowly on one character."
Mr. Saturn added this to a list 1 month, 3 weeks ago
"An uninteresting statement on prejudice that's dated horribly meets the bullshit of innocence (or at least how Mrs. Lee sees innocence) to make a work that tormented me with it's baseness for several weeks in Freshman year"
"Atticus Finch
"A well known attorney in Maycomb and the father of the protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, and her brother Jem. He is a wise and caring father throughout the novel. His children call him "Atticus" rather than "Dad," and he was originally known as "One-Shot Finch" because of his skill with the rifle (demonstrated when killing a rabid dog). Atticus' belief in equality leads him to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, from biased charges of assault. Throughout the book, though"
"The entire Ewell family.
When they are not skipping school, faking rape, condemning innocent men to their deaths or neglecting their children they like to try their hand in the occasional infanticide."
“This book capsulates what the legal profession should emulate at all times, Virtue, and not the zest to earn the largest fee. Here we see a virtuous lawyer defending the freedom of an innocent man without the benefit of a big pay day. Thrilling, brilliant, and thought provoking!” read more
VierasTalo added this to a list 1 year, 3 months ago
"Kindle, englanti
Harper Leen ainoaksi jäänyt kaunis romaani pikkutytön elämästä parin vuoden ajalta jenkkilän syvässä etelässä. Tässä on ainakin sellainen teos, joka tulisi pakkoluetuttaa vähintään kaikilla lapsilla ja aikuisilla. Moraalisaarnausta vältetään, mutta tarinassa ja päähenkilön isässä on silti niin vahva moraalinen selkäranka, että se puskee vaikuttavasti läpi kirjasta. Kaikki eettiset kannat ja mielipiteet perustellaan niin tyhjäännyttävästi ja yksi"
Hootsaidtheowl added this to a list 1 year, 4 months ago
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