Book Review – To Kill A Mocking Bird
By Harper Lee
This book is really Timeless Classic of Growing up & The Human Dignity That Unites Us All. It was first published in 1960 & went to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 & was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic.
The author has set the background of the story in silent sleepy Southern Town of America. The story is about two children James & Jean Louise.
The story captures the growing up years of above two children. Their mother died early so their father Mr.Atticus is taking care of them.
The book gradually develops the story & introduce us the entire neighborhood one by one. Story takes us to Jean & James changing perceptions & attitudes over a period. Both had very good bonding.
Mr. Atticus (Father) was lawyer & destined to fight a case of Negro. At that time, any one helping / defending Negro was improper & against the socially accepted norms. He was inviting disgrace from all his relatives & friends. However major task for him was to help innocent Negro & also make sure that all these cheap talks, because of his stands, do not harm the children.
James & Jeans were taunted by schoolmates, relatives & nearby persons as their father is Negger loving (i.e. Helping Nego). He asked them to held your head high & ignore all this.
Mr. Atticus was learned man & take utmost care that his children do not learn bad things / manner / wrong notion. He can freely be approached by his child for all types of queries / questions. At one place, his tiny daughter asks him “What does rape means?”. He answered all their queries in dignified & understanding way. He handled them well too. He lives the life by example for his child.
The story have suspense, racism problem, tales of heroic & grit along with valuable lessons of human behavior during emergency times. It also rewind our childhood memories of adventures, revolt, fears of unknown places etc. etc.
I like the book very much, it helped me to understand lots of things about my behavior & to look at broad prospective of situations.
With love,
Khushal
19/03/2009
2 comments:
Hi jiju,
I have just read ur review on "To kill A Mocking Bird", but in that I don't understand what is the meaning of "Mocking Bird". U r a very good Reviewer, i must say ! While reading ur review i feel like i m reading book in short, i don't need to read the whole book. Keep on writing so that we don't have to read the whole book.
ONE suggestion 4 u,
PLEASE WRITE A BOOK 'CAUSE U R VERY GOOD WRITER & I M YOUR BIGGEST CEILING FAN.
BYE.
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