To kill a mockingbird

To kill a mockingbird

The book To kill a mockingbird is writtten by Harper Lee and first published in 1960. It became an instant bestseller and won the Pulitzer price 1961. The book also became a movie with the same title and won an Academy Award.

To kill a mockingbird is a really famous book. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of America literature.

To kill a mockingbird is about a young girl named Jean Louise with the nickname Scout. She is growing up in a small town called Maycomb. She lives with her brother Jem and father Atticus in a house outside of the town. The book really takes up the difference between white people and black people, that the white people oppress the black people. Atticus is appointed by the court to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom. Other children mock Jem and Scout for Atticus' actions, calling him a "nigger-lover".

The book take place in around 1960 I guess (They never mention it), in a sleepy southern town in USA.

There’s a lot of characters in the book, but the most important is Scout and her brother Jem and her father Atticus. Her father is a very intelligent man who teaches Scout and her brother that all people, black or white, should be treated the same way. They really admire him and ask him for advices often.

When I first heard of the book I wondered about what the title meant. Well in the book Atticus gives his children air-rifles for Christmas and warns them that they can “Shoot all the bluejays they want”, they most remember that “It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. Scout gets confused and asks her neighbour Miss Maudie about it. Miss Maudie explains that mockingbirds never harm other living creatures and points out that mockingbirds simply provide pleasure with their songs, saying “They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us”. I think the title “to kill a mockingbird” symbolize the killing of an innocent and harmless creature, like Tom Robinson.

The language in the book is a little old but it wasn’t hard to understand. I encountered some words I did not know what they meant but it wasn’t so hard to figure them out. Some people in the book talked like rednecks and the slang words were a little hard to understand sometimes.

“Negroes”, they used this word all the time not black people or something like that.

“Being a lady”, Meant like.. Girls should wear dresses all the time and sit and drink tea and gossip with other ladies. B...