[Total: 3 Average: 3.3/5]
You must sign in to vote
You can Find this in the Library!
6 thoughts on “Lee, Harper-To Kill A Mockingbird”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Its a great book. Describing racism in the little town of Maycomb, Alabama. Blah blah blah. I will send the review later.
To Kill A Mockingbird Essay
To Kill A Mockingbird is a historical fiction book by Harper Lee, telling the story of a six year old girl called Scout Finch (Jean-Louise Finch) and her brother, Jem Finch during their summers and how they deal with the prejudice that is sent towards their father, Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer and defended a black mane named Tom Robinson, who was charged with the raping of a white girl. This book deals a lot about prejudice and discrimination in the American’s Western side.
The book gives me a good impression on how prejudice and rumors affect society, such as how Arthur ‘Boo’ Radely is often judged because he is supposedly mad. Humans tend to judge and rumors tend to spread in the wrong way, like how everyone said that there was a mad dog on the street, or how wandering around the Radely house was bad luck.
The prejudice is used around Atticus Finch, and neighbors around him call him a ‘nigger-lover,’ and it makes him somewhat inferior to others. When everyone starts pressing the opinion that white people are better than the black, Atticus has to defend the black man because he was innocent.
This book shows how unfair and judgmental the human nature can be (humans tend to dislike whatever is different in their environment) and when reading this book, it made me feel ashamed to be human, and to judge people by how they look or from what I heard.
I like this book, mainly because it teaches us something that most people don’t realize. Most books write: “There was a monster. People were afraid. There was a boy. He was a not afraid and made a friend out of the monster. Everyone should do that.”
Then the teachers ask: “Will you be afraid?” and the students all answer in unison: “No, teacher.”
Then the teacher will ask: “Should you run away?”
And all the students say: “No, teacher.”
But it isn’t how the brain always operates.
But now, if you think about it, would you really go near the monster and make friends with it?
This book shows us all these things, and tells us in a way that doesn’t force us to think that we would do differently. The book is blunt, it’s to the point and it tells us a story of the nature of mankind.
My favorite part of the book is where Jem goes back to the Radely household to get his pants back, which were already sewn together, albeit roughly. He goes and finds that the rip in the pants (from when he was leaping through the barbed fence) are already sewn together, albeit roughly and messily. It shows the other, slightly softer side of the reclusive and ‘insane’ man.
I think the part where Tom Robinson is accused for the raping of Mayelle was my least favorite part; because the man (Tom Robinson) was sentenced to death even though the evidence of the ‘crime’ was already there- Mayelle was the one going for him, not the other way around. It seems unfair that ‘black’ people have no rights at that time.
The most impressive character I have seen in this book is Scout Finch. She is desperate not to be known as a typical ‘girl’ that wears dresses and acts girly and sweet. She has a sensible side; often more than Jem, but when he mentions how ‘girly’ and ‘cowardly’ she was, she would turn away from her idea and follows whatever Jem does to prove that she isn’t the ‘girl’ everyone thinks she is.
I dislike her because she is often desperate to show her ‘boy’ side, and not to be proven as a girl. She engages in somewhat harmful and wrong behavior to prove herself, but is often told off by her father, Atticus.
I enjoyed To Kill A Mockingbird, but as I read this book, I felt more and more guilty of judging people without thinking when I was younger (by their appearance, their likes and/or dislikes, etc.). The book wasn’t anything too complicated and strange, like about a dangerous adventure or creating a monster (Frankenstein)- it was an at-home, simple and heartwarming tale that spins complex ideas into a simple, warm quilt, which we wrap around ourselves and treasure.
great review!
THIS! BOOK! IS! AWSOME!
best book i have ever read.
the movie is also AWSOME! : )
To Kill A Mockingbird is a very awesome book. It talks in the first person perspective. It talks in a tone of a little girl’s tone. This book is very touching and interesting although it talks about the brother and father’s daily life. There are love between the sister and her brother although they fight each other. They experienced adventures and almost reach death together. I like this book very much.
to kil a mockign bird it seems to be a very intresting story( it is) but ofcourse the story have a deeper meaning. in my view the author want to criticize what is the reality during his time of living what did he see adn think about what should be right what shouldn’t. he didn’t leave huis name to write a book because there wer just to many people that he saw is supporting the situation what shouldn’t be right. so he write this story in a little girls’s point of view of the world is in her eyes and how a small group of people in a normal american town lreflect how people act adn do things in his live. my opinion that what the author is trying to criticize about human races and how it is unfairthat time by reflecting on a event and what does the jury and the jude react about this. who they believe can all show what it is like and what should be improved.