I listened to the Audiobook version of Harper Lee’s, Pulitzer Prize winning book, To Kill a Mockingbird read by Sissy Spacek.
To Kill
a Mockingbird is primarily a novel about growing in the 1930s in a small
Southern United States. We see justice
through the eyes of a 8 year old girl, Scout Finch,
over a 3 year period. But the
book is more likely remembered for the trial where her father, Atticus an
widower, represents a negro for the rape of a young woman. Certain ideas (often cliches) stick
out as I look back on this book:
- You never know a man until you put on a man’s shoes and walk around in them
- Justice in this world is and always will be imperfect
- Seeing a world from a child’s view (Scout and Jem)
- How to disarm anger (Atticus)
- Most people are kind when you finally meet them individually;
- Heroes are ordinary people who do extraordinary things (Bo and Atticus).
Good read but you must realize that it depicts a period and location in time.
This fulfills my banned or censor classic category.
