To Kill a Mockingbird

Posted on 10 October 2018 by Harper Lee

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960 It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. Read To Kill a Mockingbird – kino-fada.fr If I could give this no stars, I would This is possibly one of my least favorite books in the world, one that I would happily take off of shelves and stow in dark corners where no one would ever have to read it again.I think that To Kill A Mockingbird has such a prominent place in American culture because it is a naive, idealistic piece of writing in which naivete and idealism are ultimately rewarded It s a saccharine, rose tinted eulogy for the nineteen thirties from an orator who comes not If I could give this no stars, I would This is possibly one of my least favorite books in the world, one that I would happily take off of shelves and stow in dark corners where no one would ever have to read it again.I think that To Kill A Mockingbird has such a prominent place in American culture because it is a naive, idealistic piece of writing in which naivete and idealism are ultimately rewarded It s a saccharine, rose tinted eulogy for the nineteen thirties from an orator who comes not to bury, but to praise Written in the late fifties, TKAM is free of the social changes and conventions that people at the time ...Why is it when I pick upTo Kill A Mockingbird , I am instantly visited by a sensory memory I m walking home, leaves litter the ground, crunching under my feet I smell the smoke of fireplaces and think about hot cider and the wind catches and my breath is taken from me and I bundle my coat tighter against me and lift my head to the sky, no clouds, just a stunning blue that hurts my eyes, another deep breath and I have this feeling that all is okay Why Why this memory I mean, this takes pla Why is it when I pick upTo Kill A Mockingbird , I am instantly visited by a sensory memory I m walking home, leaves litter the ground, crunching under my feet I smell the smoke of fireplaces and think about hot cider and the wind catches and my breath is taken from me and I bundle my coat tighter against me and lift my head to the sky, no clouds, just a stunning blue that hurts my eyes, another deep breath and I have this feeling that all is okay Why Why this memory I mean, this takes place in Alabama and mostly in the summer, well there is that one climatic scene on Halloween, but I bet it s still hot enough to melt the balls off a brass monkey It must be the school thing, my daughter just finished reading it, prompting me to give it another go, to fall back into Scout s world and pretend to be eight and let life simply be How is that How can life for Scout be simple I mean, sh...6.0 stars I know I am risking a serious FILM AT 11 moment and a club upside the head from Captain Obvious for voicing this, but nabbit dog I still think it needs to be said TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is one of the BEST and MOST IMPORTANT American novels ever written Okay, I said it, and I will wait patiently while you get your DUHs and DERs out of the way and hang your no shit signs outside for Inspector Holmes.Okay, now given the gruntload of reviews ratings this book has I know I m not the f 6.0 stars I know I am risking a serious FILM AT 11 moment and a club upside the head from Captain Obvious for voicing this, but nabbit dog I still think it needs to be said TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is one of the BEST and MOST IMPORTANT American novels ever written Okay, I said it, and I will wait patiently while you get your DUHs and DERs out of the way and hang your no shit signs outside for Inspector Holmes.Okay, now given the gruntload of reviews ratings this book has I...As I finished the timeless classic To Kill a Mockingbird, I thought to myself what can I add to a review that the 2 million or so good reads reviewers have not already pointed out I continued to think to myself about what has made the novel so beloved and decided to focus on a character trait courage I read Mockingbird in ninth grade English and I remember the best essay in the class focused on courage Now reading all these years later, I see how courage is a theme throughout the book Harpe As I finished the timeless classic To Kill a Mockingbird, I thought to myself what can I add to a review that the 2 million or so good reads reviewers have not already pointed out I continued to think to myself about what has made the novel so beloved and decided to focus on a character trait courage I read Mockingbird in ninth grade English and I remember the best essay in the class focused on courage Now reading all these years later, I see how courage is a theme throughout the book Harper Lee has integrated being ...Beautiful book.To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960 It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee s observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old The story is told by the six year old Jean Louise Finch To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper L...In the course of 5 years, I ve read this book nearly 17 times That adds up to reading it once at least every 4 months, on an average And I still return to this book like a bark seeking a lighthouse in the dark When I first finished it, I was so overwhelmed by how much I related to it, I read it nearly 8 times before the year ended By now I ve memorized almost every scene and I still can t shake off the feeling that I still have to learn a lot from it Over the years, I realize that without k In the course of 5 years, I ve read this book nearly 17 times That adds up to reading it once at least every 4 months, on an average And I still return to this book like a bark seeking a lighthouse in the dark When I first finished it, I was so overwhelmed by how much I related to it, I read it nearly 8 times before the year ended By now I ve memorized almost every scene and I still can t shake off the feeling that I still have to learn a lot from it Over the years, I realize that without knowing it, it has become my personal Bible a beacon to keep me from straying from the path of kindness and compassion, no matter what.With its baseless cruelty and what Coleridge poetically referred to as motiveless malignity, the world is in need of much motiveless kindness a rugged determination to keep the world a quiet haven and not the callou...Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read One does not love breathing p 20 I love this book and this idea of reading being like breathing As Scout did, I read early too, and often Every night before bed I would read and still do I saw a Twilight Zone Episode once where the main character loved to read and only wanted to...So I don t really know what to say.I think I loved this book, but for a reason beyond my understanding, it never hooked me, and it took me AGES to finish it Some chapters especially at the beginning were tedious and hard for me to get through them but then there were some chapters that I devoured the whole Tom Robinson trial and the last ones.I definitely learned a lesson or two from this book Atticus is my new role model, he is really incredible I also love Scout and Jem, those kid So I don t really know what to say.I think I loved this book, but for a reason beyond my understanding, it never hooked me, and it took me AGES to finish it Some chapters especially at the beginning were tedious and hard for me to get through them but then there were some chapters that I devoured the whole...

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10 October 2018

Harper Lee