To Kill A Mockingbird!
That would be the book I am currently reading because all of my friends have STOLEN my Twilight books. Thanks a lot. No, actually I'm glad you did it otherwise I wouldn't be reading To Kill A Mockingbird. Thanks Joe! I was in the middle of Wuthering Heights (AGAIN) and it was getting quite...repetitive. I want to know what YOU think of To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Permalink Reply by Amellys on -
Really? What is the contradiction?
Heh, that's nice. Let's all make up different meanings and ignore what the author put it or what the book is really about. You know, that's kind of like reading the Bible and trying to find a scientific meaning in it.
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Permalink Reply by DeadlyCreamPie on -
In one post you say theres no love in it, yet in another you say there is.
Ok, find, i mean interpretted. There can be more than one interprettations and meanings from this book.
Wait, does that sound right? Does that make sense?
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Permalink Reply by Amellys on
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I didn't say that there was no love. I said that there was no romantic love, and that at the most, there was filial or paternal love. Having made that distinction, I moved on to say that regardless of which kind of love the book is supposedly centered on, TKM focuses on other issues.
Yeah, you can interpret things in many ways. But some interpretations are simply wrong. Back to my analogy, saying that the Bible is scientifically accurate is irrational, because it is not. The analogy was supposed to illustrate the fact that while TKM may mention "love" it is not the main focus of the book.
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Permalink Reply by Henroshi on -
One could argue: There is suggestion of romance between Scout and Dill. But then again, they're just kids and they really have no idea what that's about. And who knows what's going on in Dill's twisted mind anyway? Innocent in youth my foot.
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Permalink Reply by Amellys on
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Yeah, but that's not romantic love in the conventional sense. Also, the book is not based around their relationship, rather the "relationship" is there to entertain the reader. Either way, I really don't think that there is anything going on between Scout and Dill, partly because they are children, and partly because Lee has never been married and Scout is a representation of her.
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Permalink Reply by Heidi Harrison on -
Yeah, I'm really getting into "To Kill A Mocking Bird"
I went to the book store today (squeals with excitement!) and bought A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Tempest and Taming The Shrew and Extras. I thought about buying War and Peace but my total was already up to thirty-some dollars...sad indeed
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Permalink Reply by Heidi Harrison on
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Macbeth looked really good...that's the one with witches and ghosts right?
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Permalink Reply by Momochi Zabuza on -
i had to read it for school and i thought it was an ok book i wouldnt read it again that is what i think
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Permalink Reply by Amellys on
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The issues brought up in To Kill a Mockingbird were at least somewhat intriguing. The writing was not too challenging; the style was easy, the plot was circular, the characters were rather flat to an extent and the vocabulary was base. Yet, there are a quite few books out there that are much worse than To Kill A Mockingbird, for if nothing else, the circumstances of it being written were curious.
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Permalink Reply by Henroshi on
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The vocabulary was base, yes, but there was just one word that they used a few times in the book that I absolutely could not recognize nor find the meaning of: Scuppernong. I still don't know what that means.
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Permalink Reply by Amellys on
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Turns out to be a grape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuppernong_grape)... Nothing works better than a quick Google search!
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