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Tarfumes.com - To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061120084
ISBN: 0061120081
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: 2006-05-23
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father -- a crusading local lawyer -- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
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Summary: One of the greatest books of all time
Comment: This book, by Harper Lee is a true classic. Every character, every scenario is perfectly written. It's touching and heartbreaking at times, but the book ends on a note of hope. Even secondary characters have an unique personality, from Calpurnia, to the Cunningham's. Atticus Finch is truly a great lawyer, fair and just-which is proven at the end, when he doesn't want his own son, Jem, to have unfair protection against the law. He doesn't quite care about others opinions, and is able to see the bad of the world but still believe in it all the same.
This book represents the loss of innocence, shows racism, and depicts cruelty, all from a young, still innocent girl. This is truly a great book, and anyone who has not read it is missing out.
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Summary: Best. Book. Ever.
Comment: I read this book while recovering from surgery. I loved it immediatly. It's an amazing story and the main character, Scout Finch, is incredible. I even named my kitten after her :). For those of you skeptical about reading this book (some of the many reasons why I decided to read this book had to do with negative feedback about it), I hope this will clarify its contraversial content.
The concept of rape in this story is necessary, given that it takes place in the south during times of racial injustice. Not many people see past the crime and ignore the purpose it serves in the story. The point of this story doesn't have much to do with rape, but the prejudice that comes with the accusation.
Another strong point in the story is towards the end, Scout questions her teacher when she condemns Hitler for the Holocaust, but at the same time discriminates against African-Americans. Harper Lee, I believe, put that in there to point out the hypocrasy of racists.
This is a must read and I'd recommend it to everyone. It immediatly became my favorite book and I hope you consider reading it too.
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Summary: Awesome
Comment: I skipped reading this in high school, but I have recently decided to go back and read all of the books I should have already read. This was awesome. I don't think I would have fully understood it ten years ago. Truly eye-opening.
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Summary: Everyone's Favorite . . .
Comment: 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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Summary: A sublime Masterpiece of 20 th Century American Literature
Comment: The New York Times feels that over the last twenty-five years the most influential book has been Toni Morrison's Beloved, over the last fifty years perhaps Ann Ryands Atlas Shrugged or Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird. First of the 5-6 different editions available to read on Amazon provide the best print and paper so its easy to physically read and wears well so it will last the test of time. This latter point is important for those who wish our young children to read the books of your own library. I have only recently read this Pulitzer prize winning novel and was pleasantly surprised. It a story of two young children (Scout and Jem) of the local towns best lawyer (Atticus Finney). The novels story unveils itself with typical young children events the next door neighbors who never comes out of his home and perhaps the highlight is when the children notice the town dog acting like he has rabies and although beloved to the town they know he needs to be contained. Then Atticus a benevolent educated family man who in his younger years was the best marksman in the county shots down the town well loved dog and then bury's him. The plot continues with a African American with a deformed left arm is accused of raping a poor white young lady by her father. A trial unfolds were the blacks are segregated from the white in the stands of the courtroom. There are a few stories dramatically emphasizing the unjust discrimination that Blacks experienced during the mid Depression years (story takes place in 1935). He is found guilty and then the story takes off with the juxtapositioning Good and Bad and the payment of the evil things we do in life, how they can suddenly right themselves. It is a short masterpiece some 319 pages perfect for young children in 4th or 5 th grade. "You can shoot all the Blue Jays you want but remember its a sin to kill a Mocking Bird" is the famous quote from the novel.
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