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What lingers with me (and lingered the first time I read it, probably in junior high) isn't/wasn't the courtroom scenes or the racial hatreds and prejudices, but 3) the sweetness of Scout's voice ("I licked [the gum:] and waited for a while. When I did not die I crammed it into my mouth"), 2) the poignancy of a single father trying to raise two children the right way, and 1) the truth, and the deep southernness, of so many of the details. My grandmother lived her whole life in small town Alabama
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Possibly the most beautiful and inspiring book I've ever read. Atticus Finch is one of those classic characters that will live in literary history forever.
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