To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee

To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Tightly written with a message for everyone

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To Kill A Mockingbird

	To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Warner Books, 1982 - 281 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Must Read Book

"To Kill A Mockingbird" is a book filled with mysteries, an engaging plot, and fascinating characters. I just read this book for a summer reading project and it captured my interest. The book starts out fairly slow but speeds up in a couple of chapters. When it gets going it will be hard to put this book down. The father, Atticus Finch, is a man who is shrouded in mystery. In every few chapters you found out a new strange secret about him. His children, Scout and Jem, are no less interesting. They constantly explore the small town they live in and encounter many adventures such as making many attempts to discover who lives in a rundown and abandoned house that is rumored to contain a crazy man.
I particularly appreciated the plot of the story. It was constantly changing as you uncovered mysteries and horrifying truths. The book never disappointed.
In addition to entertaining a wide variety of readers this book is filled with many morales. It illustrates many issues that include racism and crime. It talks about human nature and how we must treat each other better.
At the end of the book there is a big trial that is thrilling and suspenseful. It is the point that the book has worked up to. After the trial there are a couple of big twists that I will not give away for they are most surprising. I am talking about this to show that the book is exciting to the very last page. It will leave you with a lot to think about.
If you enjoy intricate and suspenseful books I highly recommend that you read "To Kill A Mockingbird".

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Tightly written with a message for everyone

Harper Lee was encouraged to write some of her childhood memories. What in the beginning seems like the story of three childhood friends in depression era Macomb, Alabama, turns out to be packed with insights to the makeup of human kind.

This story is intriguing on many levels from the history of the area to the stereotyping of people. Most of all every turn was a surprise as told in the first person from the view of Scout Finch. And instead of telling the story in a six year old vocabulary she uses an exceptionally large repertoire to describe the people and events. This story is not as slow passed as one may guess from first glance as every remark and every action will be needed for a future action.

A major controversial part of the story is the trial of Tom Robinson. Hoverer this is just a catalyst to help Scout understand the nature of people including her father Atticus and you will find that as important as it is it is just a part of the story with other major characters such as Arthur "Boo" Radley.

Even thought it appears that Scout is the recipient of the insights, I believe we the reader is the real recipient.

I can truly say that this book has changed my outlook in life.

To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)

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Everyone's Favorite . . .

I honestly have no idea how many times I have read this book. I read it first as an assignment in the eighth grade; most recently, at the age of 41, I read it aloud to three of my children. As with the more recent readings that I recall, I choked up a bit at the end as Scout is experiencing the tragedy and love that surrounds her in the form of her conservatively eccentric father, her mythically reclusive neighbor, and the whole Depression-era, post-Reconstruction sugary gothic Alabama town of her home.
There seems so little to add in reviewing this book. I will say that even as I read it I ponder the strength of its charm. What is it that is so powerful? Scout is herself quite endearing, although even a casual reading should tell the reader that the first-person voice that is speaking is not the voice of the eight-year old Scout; Harper Lee somehow conveys a tone that retains the childlike innocence of Scout (the child), but the story told is mature and the vocabulary is college-educated. So is this Scout (or Jean Louise Finch) as an adult? I don't think so, as there is very little biographical/autobiographical information provided beyond the timeline of the story (e.g, did Scout grow up and marry?; what happened to Scout's mother?; does everyone live happily ever after?).
I read once that Harper Lee considered this to be a simple love story, or something like that. I've wondered who she was thinking about: Atticus and his kids, or Boo Radley and the kids, or some other pairing. I guess it is all of the above. It's a simple story of relatively normal children with an independently thinking father who all live in the politely racist South of the 1930's. The circumstances that confront this family (racism of the lowest order and ugly poverty and dysfunction from the underbelly of society) are really not abnormal until the violent climax. Blood is shed; much blood. But it is all presented with a humanity and Southern nostalgia that draw us into a world - as ugly as it is - that makes us wish we were there, and that we could have changed a few things.
Highly recommended, if you haven't read it yet.

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I purchased this book for my son who is taking an English class. This book is a classic and unfortunately I threw my copy out. I located this book and purchased it. It arrived within 5 days and was in good shape. Keep up the good work.

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