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Agreed!
anything by alice walker or toni morrison
You can not replace To Kill A Mockingbird. It is a treasure! Perhaps you could read others in conjunction with it but replace it - NO!
judi,why is this book so good in your eyes? It,s always bugged me since i read it at school. How are the characters real, for example?
To Kill AS Mockingbird is a beautifully written story with well developed characters. The message of racial equality, love and justice is a strong and welcome message for all.
I am sorry that your experience with this very special book was not a good one. Perhaps you would consider reading it again now that you are older. If not, I am sorry that the story and its very real characters did not capture your imagination. I hope that you find a book that does!
Why would it have to be removed from school reading lists? What complaints against it could there be? Only idiots would propose doing this.
It would be awful if they removed this from the school reading list. Its an amazing story i dont think there is anything out there that could replace it and stand the test of time.
There really is no way to replace To Kill a Mockingbird. True there are other books with the same theme and similar conflict, but one must remember that this great book was written in the late 1950s and published in 1960. It lived within the very boundaries of the Civil Rights era, and by virtue of this, its atmosphere and its language, the very soul of the novel, lives and breathes its message to the reader. This is why it's an American classic. This is why it cannot be replaced and substituted with something else.
Perhaps the question was asked because the reader loved this so much, that they wanted recommendations for something equally as good.
I agree James, no comparison. I realy enjoyed Jesusl Land after finding it on my son's high school reading list. Just wondering if it commonly appears or were we just lucky.
I believe that TKAM came out in 1960, I'm pretty sure we had to read it when I was a 9th grader in (1963-1964). I've been working in schools since 1975 and every school I've been in has assigned it either in the 9th or 8th grades. It's been assigned in schools for 50 years or more now. With the exception of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Hamlet which have been read in schools for a lot longer. I can think of any other book that has been read for that many years in a row. Some books go in and out of popular at high schools like certain Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck books, but To Kill A Mockingbird keeps going strong year after year. I've read The Help and I've read The Secret Life of Bees, but good as they may be, those books are not Classics. To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee's one and only book. After all, how could she top it?
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anything by alice walker or toni morrison
You can not replace To Kill A Mockingbird. It is a treasure! Perhaps you could read others in conjunction with it but replace it - NO!
judi,why is this book so good in your eyes? It,s always bugged me since i read it at school. How are the characters real, for example?
To Kill AS Mockingbird is a beautifully written story with well developed characters. The message of racial equality, love and justice is a strong and welcome message for all.I am sorry that your experience with this very special book was not a good one. Perhaps you would consider reading it again now that you are older. If not, I am sorry that the story and its very real characters did not capture your imagination. I hope that you find a book that does!
Why would it have to be removed from school reading lists? What complaints against it could there be? Only idiots would propose doing this.
It would be awful if they removed this from the school reading list. Its an amazing story i dont think there is anything out there that could replace it and stand the test of time.
There really is no way to replace To Kill a Mockingbird. True there are other books with the same theme and similar conflict, but one must remember that this great book was written in the late 1950s and published in 1960. It lived within the very boundaries of the Civil Rights era, and by virtue of this, its atmosphere and its language, the very soul of the novel, lives and breathes its message to the reader. This is why it's an American classic. This is why it cannot be replaced and substituted with something else.
Perhaps the question was asked because the reader loved this so much, that they wanted recommendations for something equally as good.
I agree James, no comparison. I realy enjoyed Jesusl Land after finding it on my son's high school reading list. Just wondering if it commonly appears or were we just lucky.
I believe that TKAM came out in 1960, I'm pretty sure we had to read it when I was a 9th grader in (1963-1964). I've been working in schools since 1975 and every school I've been in has assigned it either in the 9th or 8th grades. It's been assigned in schools for 50 years or more now. With the exception of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Hamlet which have been read in schools for a lot longer. I can think of any other book that has been read for that many years in a row. Some books go in and out of popular at high schools like certain Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck books, but To Kill A Mockingbird keeps going strong year after year. I've read The Help and I've read The Secret Life of Bees, but good as they may be, those books are not Classics. To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee's one and only book. After all, how could she top it?
