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I read a few one-star reviews of this that lambasted the book and author for being a racist, horrible piece of trash. I couldn't disagree more. Were there some pretty shocking and degrading ideas about black people and their ability to become full citizens and function in society? Of course. I have no doubt that there were scores of people all over the country thinking that way in the fifties and sixties, and let's face it, there still are.
To me, the book was as much a coming of age story as an ...more
To me, the book was as much a coming of age story as an ...more
I was disappointed that this book was not what I was looking forward to read. Scout (known as Jean Louise) leaves NYC and returns to back to Maycomb, where she is engaged in some undefined career-girl enterprise. For the first few chapters, she is avoiding her 'lowborn' but well-meaning suitor, Henry Clinton; also fighting aunt Alexandra wearing her medieval corset. Jean Louise realizes that her father, Atticus, becomes a member of Citizen's Counsil (a marginal version of wrong doing, and Atticu
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Read for 19. A New York Times best-seller
This book gave me lots of things to think about!
This book gave me lots of things to think about!
This book has no plot?!?!
It took Jean Louise a really long time to actually see her father for who he was not the person she thought he was.
*3.5 stars*
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