To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

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.