To Kill A Mockingbird

[SkyRider]

One of the major books of our time.

Harper Lee, rest in peace.
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/b...ter-who-told-the-truth-about-racism-1.2541596

I never read the book but saw the movie starring Gregory Peck.

 

[Frankfooter]

You need to read the book to really understand its power.
Though the sequel didn't do as well.
Great work.

 

[las venganza]

One of my all time favourite books (Read it as part of the curriculum in High School) !! May she rest in peace!!

 

[Toronto Girlfriends]

I agree, terrific book.

 

[SkyRider]

I will give the book a read.

Just bear in mind the Deep South of the 1960's is not the Deep South of the 2000's. Huge positive changes since the book was written.

BTW: You should watch the movie as well. Gregory Peck (R.I.P.) brings the book to life.

 

[Lintroller]

Truly a great author! Reminds me of grade 10 English! Very good year for me? Many great firsts!!

 

[james t kirk]

I will give the book a read.
Some authors only have one book in them.
She made it a good one!

There is a conspiracy theory out there that says that Mockingbird was actually written by Truman Capote. (Harper Lee and Capote grew up with each other and Dill in Mockingbird is based on Capote.)

I personally find it hard to believe because Capote was as about a self absorbed individual as ever there was and if he did write such a masterpiece, I doubt he could have kept his mouth shut about it.

 

[gcostanza]

BTW: You should watch the movie as well. Gregory Peck (R.I.P.) brings the book to life.

How would you know?
You stated up-thread that you've never read the book.

 

[Brill]

Just bear in mind the Deep South of the 1960's is not the Deep South of the 2000's. Huge positive changes since the book was written.

The book takes place in the early thirties, the whole country was a very different place. One of my favourite books, could have done without the sequel but it was interesting nonetheless.

 

[SkyRider]

The book takes place in the early thirties, the whole country was a very different place. One of my favourite books, could have done without the sequel but it was interesting nonetheless.

I never read the book but I did see the movie and forgot that although made in 1962 it portrayed events in the 1930's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_(film)

P.S. I didn't see the movie when it was originally released but some years later. The movie is in black and white (no, it's not because I don't have a color TV).
http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/movie-kill-mockingbird-153063

 

[las venganza]

I never read the book but I did see the movie and forgot that although made in 1962 it portrayed events in the 1930's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_(film)

P.S. I didn't see the movie when it was originally released but some years later. The movie is in black and white (no, it's not because I don't have a color TV).
http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/movie-kill-mockingbird-153063

I have watched the movie, and I have read the book, both excellent (Robert Duvall played Boo Radley - a little known fact)!! The advanced English class curriculum in my school board back then, was pretty damn good imho. I read quite a few good books back in High School, in fact a lot of them were on the - top 100 books you should read before you die list. Books that dealt with race issues struck a cord with me, especially since I am half Black!!

 

[MissCroft]

Read it twice - once in high school and again a couple of years ago. One of my faves.

 

[SkyRider]

Manderlay is another movie about the Black experience in the Deep South in the 1930's.

"Set in the early 1930s, the film takes up the story of Grace and her father after burning the town of Dogville at the end of the previous film. Grace and her father travel in convoy with a number of gunmen through rural Alabama where they stop briefly outside a plantation called Manderlay. As the gangsters converse, a black woman emerges from Manderlay's front gates complaining that someone is about to be whipped for stealing a bottle of wine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manderlay