Publisher : lippincott PA NY 1960
Publication Date : 1960 01 01
>> Review of To Kill a Mockingbird
This is a classic so I think that I expected more that was actually there I liked it but did not love it
>> fizzles out
This book comes with such a reputation behind it that it seems a bit of a sin to criticise but really folks it lacks the tight structure needed to put it among the truly great
It s basically a series of charming sketches of small town America before the modern world got its hold given some sort of shape by the arrest trial and conviction of an innocent man
Once the main plot is over and done Harper Lee seems not to know where to go and the book drifts rather aimlessly to its close
Wonderful touching description of people and place however with Atticus Finch one of those quiet heroes who makes you feel the world is a better place just for having read about him
>> Classic Coming of Age
It seems most perspectives are learned based on personal experiences or the internalized experiences of others
The near universal narration of this book makes it accessible a child at play making sense of an patently imperfect and covertly hostile world
The point of view character Scout is a young girl so young that behaving according to gender is something she has not yet mastered
Similarly the concepts of poverty racism sexuality and violence are unclear to her
As the story unfolds through her eyes the reader gains or revisits these perspectives in a place and time that is likely at least a little different from our own and thus the work is as insightful now as it was when it was written
