The Bottom Line
- Well written
- Great characters
- A thoughtful, moving story
- Don't have a con
Description
- Two children in depression era Alabama
- Several outcasts shape the way they see the world
- A story about innocence, love, sympathy and human nature
Guide Review - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Book Review
What moves To Kill a Mockingbird to classic status is its morality and ability to draw sympathy out of readers as much today as when it was written in 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with heavy issues--racism, oppression, injustice. Amazingly, it is able to handle these deep and sensitive areas without feeling depressing or preachy. Lee accomplishes this by making the narrator a child and allowing us to learn along with her.
Lee's writing makes it is easy to enter the world of depression era Alabama. Despite all the flaws of the town, it is also easy to love many things about the place and many of the characters. If you have not yet read To Kill a Mockingbird, you will not regret picking it up. If you read it awhile ago, it may be time to visit this world again.
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