Book Review: To Kill A Mockingbird
Book name: To Kill a Mocking Bird
Author Name: Harper Lee
Genre: Classic
Jeane Louis Finch( Scout), Jem Atticus Finch, and their friend Dil meet each other in Maycomb county, a sub urban place in Alabama in 1928. Together, they have fun until the startling discovery of an age old rumor drives them wild. “Boo” Radley, the boogey man, the criminal who stabbed his father in the leg with scissors while cutting a news paper, travels to their ears. The same monsters who sneaks out at night to hunt squirrels and rats for dinner. Their lifelong goal is to find him, to see who he is, and make him come outside. Meanwhile, their father Atticus is a lawyers. He is faced with a difficult case. Mr. Robinson, a black man was arrested for raping a white woman.
To Kill a Mocking Bird, is all about growing up. It shows suburban life back in the 1920s in the South, and the tough line separating whites and blacks. Truly a classic, this book is a must read, it should be on everyones book shelf.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Plot: Amazingly strong, and tough to live through. This novel brings up two sub plots; for the children to find out who “Boo Radley” is, and the terrible turmoil caused by the rape.
Characters: The characters are life like. None of them are see through at all, they both have pros and cons and you can picture meeting them in real life.
Settings: The settings are real(seriously), and they are described amazingly.
Voice: The voice is great. It follows the roles as Scout but from her adult self retelling the story.
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Absolutely. This one’s a favorite, and one that I’d happily read over and over.
I read this back in school… about twenty-five years ago. I loved it (and it took a lot in a book to hold my attention back then) and you’ve just reminded me I’m long overdue a re-read
Thanks.
BTW: can I just remind you that you need to add the Idiosyncatica group members to your sidebar, Damian? It’s just that I feel it’s pretty important that we all reciprocate, you know.
This was the first novel I ever read, start to finish. I was about nine or ten years old when my mother gave it to me. I didn’t understand it all at the time, but loved Scout and the Boo Radley mystery.
I’m with Gary - it’s time for a re-read.
I loved To Kill A Mocking Bird.I read it when I was eight years old and it is still one of my top five favourite books.
I think the thing I like best about the book is how you can see the characters changing through out the book.Like Scout for instance.She started of as an innocent,slightly wild,though loveable young girl.Scout is who she is because of the way Atticus has raised her. He has nurtured her mind, conscience, and individuality without bogging her down in fussy social hypocrisies and notions of propriety.As the novel progresses, Scout has her first contact with evil in the form of racial prejudice, and the basic development of her character is governed by the question of whether she will emerge from that contact with her conscience and optimism intact or whether she will be bruised, hurt, or destroyed like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Thanks to her father, Scout learns that though humanity has a great capacity for evil, it also has a great capacity for good.
My rating,: 5 stars
I fell head over heels for this book when I was a kid. I loved it so much I reread it over and over again. My brother still has memories of me reading chapters to him as a bedtime story. It is one of the books that made me seriously want to be a writer. What amazing characters Jem, Scout and Dill were — perfect.
A few years ago I read that Dill was actually based on Truman Capote, as he and Harper Lee grew up together in the south.