Summary: Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, it takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.
This is a book that I feel like a lot of people read in middle/high school, but it wasn't a requirement for my school. Once again I feel like since I have the book, now is the best time as ever to take it off my shelf and read it!
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My thoughts:
To start off the novel, it was very slow paced, hard to follow, and I felt unsure of where the story is supposed to lead to. There were too many characters thrown at me at once which also made me unsure what the many interactions in the beginning are for/relevant to and who was connected to what and what I was supposed to recall for each character. I became too distracted mid page and didn’t know what's going on.
Harper Lee's purpose was to show moral values, the difference of right versus wrong by making Scout and Jem innocent young children because they have not seen evil this early in their lives. I very much received these efforts near the end of the story with the trial and aftermath there of.
The title of the story is “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the question is who is the mockingbird? The intention of the mockingbird is a symbol of innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. This can be said about many of the characters in the book, but only two characters die. Therefore, I believe that the mockingbird in relation to the title is Tom Robinson because it is most certainly not Robert Ewell.
I felt as though I missed something with Aurthur “Boo” Radley. He was the one who saved Jem and Scout in the end of the story, but I was expecting more.
I know there is a lot of controversy with this book because of the book's racial slurs, profanity, and discussion of rape. I was surprised by some words that were used in the book and I can see why some schools wouldn't want it in their libraries, but history cannot be ignored or put in a better light just for the comfort of some people. I’m not quite sure how young children are when they read this for school but I do believe it is one that many people should read.
Overall, it did take me a while to read as it's not the fast paced books that I am used to but it did provide me with some interesting insights.
Summary:
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, it takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.
This is a book that I feel like a lot of people read in middle/high school, but it wasn't a requirement for my school. Once again I feel like since I have the book, now is the best time as ever to take it off my shelf and read it!
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My thoughts:
To start off the novel, it was very slow paced, hard to follow, and I felt unsure of where the story is supposed to lead to. There were too many characters thrown at me at once which also made me unsure what the many interactions in the beginning are for/relevant to and who was connected to what and what I was supposed to recall for each character. I became too distracted mid page and didn’t know what's going on.
Harper Lee's purpose was to show moral values, the difference of right versus wrong by making Scout and Jem innocent young children because they have not seen evil this early in their lives. I very much received these efforts near the end of the story with the trial and aftermath there of.
The title of the story is “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the question is who is the mockingbird? The intention of the mockingbird is a symbol of innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. This can be said about many of the characters in the book, but only two characters die. Therefore, I believe that the mockingbird in relation to the title is Tom Robinson because it is most certainly not Robert Ewell.
I felt as though I missed something with Aurthur “Boo” Radley. He was the one who saved Jem and Scout in the end of the story, but I was expecting more.
I know there is a lot of controversy with this book because of the book's racial slurs, profanity, and discussion of rape. I was surprised by some words that were used in the book and I can see why some schools wouldn't want it in their libraries, but history cannot be ignored or put in a better light just for the comfort of some people. I’m not quite sure how young children are when they read this for school but I do believe it is one that many people should read.
Overall, it did take me a while to read as it's not the fast paced books that I am used to but it did provide me with some interesting insights.