To Kill A Mockingbird

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Oh, definitely one of my favorites! I read it in high school over the summer. Got started on it one night and couldn't go to sleep until I finished it. I love older books like that.
 
Oh it was amazing! I love Scout, she's so cute, and the whole plot was the absolute BEST. But you have to understand the civil rights movement before you read it, or it's not really that great. I understood it, thankfully, and it was wonderful, really. :)
 
We read it for school this year, I got so into one night when we had to read the start of the trial I just finished the whole book. Definetly one of my favs. now.
 
it's a Pulitzer prize winning novel by Harper Lee and actually it was made into film in 1962
it's great, and the story is good.
 
If you liked the movie, you'll like Aslan. NO JOKE, they patterned the facial expressions of Aslan in the movie after the way Atticus Finch (Cary Grant) handled himself in To Kill a Mockingbird. Just the right degree of idealism and determination.
 
You're right, Gregory Peck. Sorry about that slip. But it was Atticus Finch's expressions from the movie that they used. There was an article about it.
 
As good as the movie is (and I know this sounds old), the book is simply superior. The clarity of the English prose, the believability of the characters, the nuances in the plot--all fabulous. What is so refreshing is the depiction of social complexities (race relations, poverty, education, etc.) in the South, and the author's use of typology: There is not just one "mockingbird," but several: the falsely accused black man, the virtuous lawyer, the lawyer's young son, the emotionally disturbed man who ends up the savior. Complex and simple all at the same time. Truly a masterpiece.
 
I love this novel! It has such a romantic atmosphere. I can see why they used Gregory Peck's Atticus for Aslan!

But I agree that the novel is much more superior to the movie (wonderful as it is). Many of the novel's original symbols were left out making the theme a little less concrete in the movie.
 
I agree with what everyone has says. This is a spectacular book, and also a good movie. The writing is really superb in the novel. But be prepared if you have never heard of it: it is set in the South (USA) during the Depression when race relations were hugely different than they are now, and that situation is sort of the focus of the book.
 
I absolutely love this book. In fact, I'm doing a speech on To Kill A Mockingbird this year. It's one of my all time favorites. I live in the south, so the small town southern people are hilarious to me. The book's kind of sad though. I love the title, because you don't know why it's the title till the end of the book. Harper Lee was extremely clever. Good book, and I would recommend it to anyone.
 
I don't know, either, except it is a song bird which imitates the chirping of all kinds of other birds, I don't know why.

Did you know, the character of Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird is based upon Harper Lee's real-life childhood friend, Truman Capote? If you are at all familiar with Tru, you can see he clearly started life as Dill.
 
This book was amazingly captivating and very interesting, and I'm grateful to have studied it in school, where a lot of the foreshadowing and symbols were revealed to give us a better understanding of the book. I never saw the entire movie, but I do feel that Gregory Peck was perfect for the role of Atticus. ^_^ However... studying it in the next grade as well, a few months later... I don't think I'll read that book again soon. Having to analyze it on a lower level so soon after a superior course really upset me.
 
One of the best books ever written..terrible subjects handled sensetively and clearly so that anyone can understand the power behind the words. It must be really great because Inkspot and i actually agree it's good! The wodners of Ms Lee!
The film is also fantastic..I cry everytime I watch it and still wish my dad was like Atticus Finch...
It's a story that will resonate until the are no longer peole..the hope, the love within, the understanding in the story are someting which every one should allow themselves to embrace!
 
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