I have read this book so many times and have seen the movies more times than I can count. As a young reader, I didn't understand all the social issues that the book presents, but I enjoyed the relationship between Scout and her family.
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 9 - 12 | Grades 3 - 6 | n/a | 5.6 | 99121 |
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.
Publisher: Harper
ISBN-13: 9780062420701
ISBN-10: 0062420704
Published on 3/3/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
Book Reviews (70)
I think this might be one of my fraviot books.
All-time favorite book.
tis is not about mockingbirds
i have heard about this book. My sister says it was good but i dont know it seems weird to me also uncomfortable i like reading for fun it just seems weird
its great i love how there in eyes not this person that and there names are so unique i mean scout jem ammticus
This book really is a masterpiece. I had to read this for school and I first i thought it was boring, but the story is so amazing and intriguing and I loved it!
This book is full of sympathy, passion, sadness, and happiness. There will never be another book as good as this story. The start is slow but once you reache the middle, you simply cannot put the book down. I would reccomend this book for a slightly older audience because it has some questionable scenes. Other then that, it's a piece of art.
It is a very inspirational book. It's filled with wisdom and idea's, it's amazing. Everything about it has a meaning. It's not about a girl who isn't popular at school. It's not about the faries in the medow. It's about the world, and everything wrong and right with-in it. I recommend that you should ask your parents before reading it, it has a few inaproprate scenes. But, overall, it's more realistic then Vangoh's Monalisa.
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up. Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often.