To Kill a Mockingbird

Hardcover, 323 pages

English language

Published Aug. 10, 1995 by HarperCollinsPublishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-017322-7
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OCLC Number:
1020769144

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4 stars (8 reviews)

"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 mocking bird 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 rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. the conscience of a town stepped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

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A forward novel that we already moved past

3 stars

The book represents a point of view of a child during the 30's written by someone who was a child during the 30's, which brings valuable historical authenticity. It was published in the 60's and due to its immediate success it was a part of a shift in attitudes regarding the civil rights movements of the 70's. Reading the book with this context in mind is an interesting experience because to a contemporary mind, the 60's is in many ways more absurd than was the 30's to the author.

The novel own its own merit is greatly delivered, with enough character building and contextualization that by the time the main plot arrives my metropolitan millennial mind is decently acclimatized to a completely alien society and culture. The naive, progressive-household-raised, clean slate kid point of view gives the narrator plausible bewilderment when facing the pervasive racial injustice and hypocrisy the book …

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4 stars

Romanzo per giovani adultǝ scorrevole e di forte impatto, ma capisco perché molti americani non apprezzino: vederselo obbligato come libro sul tema razzismo nelle scuole non mi sembra proprio il massimo, visto che se lo si analizza con minuzia cade talvolta nella narrativa del salvatore bianco.

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5 stars

So, I'm a thirty-five-year-old librarian who had never read this until my family chose it as our annual summer read. I want to say that I should have read it long ago, but I don't think that's true. Now was the right time for me to read this.

I'm discovering that I enjoy richly-described summer stories where children deal with mature situations. That's what I found here. Beautiful, shocking, sweet, evocative, powerful.

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Subjects

  • Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
  • Race relations -- Fiction.
  • Trials (Rape) -- Fiction.
  • Girls -- Fiction.
  • Southern States -- Fiction.