This book is a very interesting book and I think that people should read it, if they like mysteries!!!!!! I didn't read all of it yet, but I am soon going to finish it!! There are many things that you or anyone in this world could learn from this book, so read it!!!!!!!!
If you read this book, then tell me if it is a good book or not, because I think it's pretty cool!! Also tell me why do you think it is a good/bad book??!!!!!
ok i am reading this unique novel in my english class. I think that it is a good book but it is a novel that no 16 year old teen is going to want to read and analys in there class. I have become bord with "To kill a Mockingbird" and i think that it should be taken out of the schools curriculum. Over all i think that it is great for a summers reading or something along the lines of that but not for a project geeze. from 1 - 10 i give it a 7.
thank u finally some 1 said it im 16 also and am readin this book in english3 we have talked about it 4 3 weeks and im about 2 die
Oh come on we're talking about great American literature here! Even a plebianistic single-celled cro-magnon neanderathol could find interest in this book. Keep your book hating views to yourself. I'm 16 and I loved the book is atticus cool or what? a scale of 1-10? definitely a 9.5
Finally--someone with a brain!!
Harper Lee's treatment of the South, family, prejudice, etc. is brilliant. And Atticus Finch is the model of what every father should be!
I'm 14 and I'm reading this book for my English class. It's pretty boring. It's not really the type of book I would wanna read but I guess it's ok. This site is helping me alot though because I don't get some of the stuff thats happening. but on a scale of 1-10 i would give it a 6
I would just like to say that this is an amazing book. I am currently seventeen but read "To Kill a Mockingbird" at age fourteen. Not only did I enjoy it, I couldn't put it down! The book has a strong message delivered with brilliant prose. I worry at the state of education in the United States if a sixteen-year -old can't even show her ignorance with proper grammar. If I wrote like that even at the age of ten my mom would have be mortified. In addition, I love class discussion spent analyzing books. I am enrolled in AP English Literature and that is what we spend the majority of class time doing. I digress - rating "To Kill a Mockingbird" from 1-10, I would say 10.
I think it is an awesome book, and I don't find it boring at all. But it all depends on your perspective of people and life. Many people who wouldn't like a book like this are close-minded and not very accepting of change or difference. But if you're very open-minded and know how to appreciate the important things in life, you would really enjoy this book. I almost wanted to cry because of how much Scout grows up and mature she is for her age. I wish more children were like her. There are even teenagers that are less immature than her.
The book is alright, providing that you read it once only, and not study it over and over. It is also presenting the american viewpoint, whereas, in other parts of the world(yes they do exist ;-) ) Then this book can be taken as a comparison as how the ideals of the early settlers in the usa, changed over time to become more racist in their viewpoint as the years passed by, and how that compares with the percieved outlook of the usa today.
i think this book is wonderful. But why no 16 yr old teen is going to want to read and analysis in class? i'm 13+. i think it's SO interesting i cant wait for the teacher to teach. yet she's going on and on her lessons with nothing really related to the content inside. If ya think it's for summers reading.. then, i can only say that u dont understand the book at all. What's inside is really important and it's a serious problem faced by the society. The importance of tolerance, education, prejudice, and learning how to stand in ppl's perspectives is also portrayed.
i agree with Ashley G. Scout is so young, yet she's able to understand ppl's feelings and try to stand in their perspectives. Jem too.
i give the book 9/10. nothing is perfect, u see. (:
To Kill A Mockingbird is my favorite book of all times. I have always loved it. It teaches so many things that kids of this day and age don't learn otherwise. It entertains the reader along with giving much to think about. It should be required reading for all high school students. It is a wonderful book.
This book was written about the era when discrimination was at it worst. Sadly, it is true that a white man's (or woman's) word was taken anytime over that of a person of color. Even American Indians were discriminated against, just not quite as much as the black people.
Actually, for high school students, the book should be studied! Many of them seem to little compassion today. If they study this book and are intelligent enough to grasp the lessons taught in it, then perhaps it will improve their lives now and in years to come.
i totally agree with you. although i thought that the book had some very slow points, the ending was the best one i have seen in years. i am only 14 and read this book for english and it is the perfect example of predjuduce in common society. this book has such a strong message that totally grabs the reader
We just finished the book. I'm 14 and in English 2. It's pretty good. Boring at first. I slept through the beginning. But it gets alot better. scale of 1-10...8
this book is actually written in the perspective of scout as an adult!
thats why at times it seems a little too mature for a seven year old.
oh c'mon most 7 year olds wouldnt even understand whats going on in courts.
geesh i would say thats the only flaw in the book as it overrates the thinking of
a 7 year old! im not trying to criticise any young chaps out there. yeah but on the whole.. AWESOME! 9/10
Yeah, I have to read TKAMB for summer for my Honors english 10 class. At first I thought it was going to be absolutely horrid, but as I'm reading it I really like it. My only hope is that the in-class discussions don't kill it for me.
My rating of 1-10: about an 8.5
I have the exact same opinion as you...
well... i read this book over the summer for my honors english class and at first i thought i was really boring but as the plot progressed it got more interesting the action really picked up. NOT. it did get better twords the end but the beginning and middle were lame. alough i do think that the book has many topcs that were interesting and whatnot but over all i thought it was slow and boringish. i might also thinks this because i have to do all these projects for it before school starts, and i am sick of looking at the book and all of its nonsense. i give it 6/10
"A book is like a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The cool thing about literature is that every person who reads a work brings different life experiences and attitudes into it, so every reader takes different ideas out of it. So, a catalog of people's opinions about a novel may be interesting to read, but I really doubt that any reader can convince another that the book is better/worse than s/he originally thinks it is.
I happen to think that TKaM is the second finest American novel, after Huck Finn. But my thinking this does not make it a better novel in the eyes of readers who were bored by it.
I agree with you. I'm readin to kill a mockin bird in my gr. 10 English class and it is HORRIBLE!! i swear i will fall alseep someday while I am reading it. It is also really hard when your teacher is the worst reader in the entire universe and she gets mad at you every 2 seconds 4 tlking and then says she feels sorry for your family!! I think i might like it better if the teacher was better nd i didn't have to do a bunch of retarded work for it!! i give it like a 3 out of 10. only becuz of the teacher. she sux
SHUT UP COCO S. A BOOK IS NOT LIKE A MIRROR YOU'RE A BIG GEEK!!!
its actually a really good book in terms of looking inside of different characters, learning about the 1940's (i think) and to understand differences in our society to the society back then having to do with racism, sexism, and discrimination from all ends of the story. I think its a good book of what I read and it teaches a lot about people and small town syndrome. about an 8
Im 14 and i have only read about 5 pages and i would rather commit suicide than read it
Dillan, give the book a chance. It does start slowly, but it gets better. I think you will really like the stuff about "Boo" Radley. He is a "ghost" who lives down the street from Jem and Scout. They are terrified of him. He stays inside all the time, but they eventually see him.
I'm old enough to appreciate this book but not ready enough to enjoy it. My drive through any book is to read to the Climax. This book had two or three spread throughout. I didn't like this book untill I got to the court scene and, when it ended, I was uninterested. I give this book a 6 out of 10.
i agree with ryan. i'm basically just reading it to get my a! i understand why its a "classic", but i definetly don't enjoy it. its just not my style. 5 out of 10?
seriously i am only in the 7TH grade and i am reading this TKM Book
are you kidding this book is awesome i loved it!! this is definatly one of the best books i have ever read!
reading to kill a kockingbird is good. the story is awesome.very interesting on how the young narrator narrate the whole story.
Kara--reading it just to "get my A"???? You are a pompous, presumptuous little thing!!
If you can't recognize the value of this book, then you don't deserve an A by a long shot. High grades are not automatic, kid--they come from hard work and from true intelligence, not from just expecting them and bragging about it.
You have a lot of growing up to do.
Yeah, twas okay, bout a 9 for me out of ten.
Guys if you think this was boring at least you didnt have to read JANE EYRE!!!! for your KS3( crazy british test for 14yr olds btw)!!!!
Oh Jesus.
Okay Jane Eyre was terrible. The idea is brilliant but the content is extremely slow. They could have made that book wonderful but honestly it drags its butt, if that makes sense... Anyway, TKAM is wonderful. I love how its written. Few novels evoke the daily world of childhood in a way that seems convincing whether you are sixteen or sixty-six, and to me thats what impresses me most.
I rate TKAM a 8/10. This book is a classic and worth reading.
First of all I absolutely love Jane Eyre, its one of my favorite books ever, and second of all To Kill A Mockingbird is now my ultimate favorite book. Im 19 and I had never read the book because I thought it would be too much about race and about little else. I never had to read it in my AP English high school classes, but I'm very glad that I read To Kill A Mockingbird it was a very refreshing book due in part because of the narrator, Scout, in that she is a child and the read gets to see a child's viewpoint of the world. I loved the book so much I finished it in 6 hours. I would rate this book 10/10. The best novel written ever.
i thought the book was pretty boring but i think its only because im in gr.7
First of all most of you here read the book.....some of it.....right? so you should know what exactly this book about. It teaches lots of lesson that none of you have used at all. Especially the so called smart people. So when you show a little mature and learn to respect other people's opinions.........you can talk about this book. I am one of those people who found the book boring. I wouldn't really read something like this in my free time if it wasn't for school. I knew could finish the Book it is 281 but couldn't seem to read 2 pages of this in a week so I gave up and had to watch the movie and do bunch of research instead of reading the book. I don't know what type grade I will get but I know I tried my best. I give it 5/10.
Shanel--You say you tried your best, yet you didn't actually read the book? I give YOU a 5 out of 10.
Many novels start out slowly. Readers need to be patient and give the book a chance by reading at least four chapters. In this case, I think by the fourth chapter you will be much more interested.
You seem to understand that the book teaches some valuable lessons. You missed a big one, though: persistence pays off, even if it's not a popular or easy thing. Consider Atticus Finch, who does the ultimate unpopular thing by defending a Negro. He tells the truth persistently, and even though he loses the trial, he gains everyone's respect.
Oh, another lesson you missed: the one about not judging people. Scout learns not to judge Arthur Radley from the gossip he hears. You could stand to be a little less judgmental about other posters. Lines like " . . . lesson that none of you have used at all" and ". . . when you show a little mature" show you to be quite judgmental. As Calpurnia explains to the children (oh, right--that's in the part you didn't read), talking down to people only aggravates 'em.
Im sixteen this year. I think the book is great!Im doing this as my literature book in school. I actually started reading it before I knew I was taking literature as a subject. You need to have deep analysis of this book then you can appreciate how the author has so successfully brought our the many important themes of this book
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I'm 16 and I'm currently reading this book... Well, it's a school project, so I'm kinda forced to read this book. I'm going through it very slooooowly, my teacher said only the first few chapters would be slow. The book has been boring and slow all the time, to my opinion. But I'm finally starting to feel certain tension now I'm at chapter 17.
Sometimes I feel several fragments could be deleted, not important for the storyline. Such fragments aren't bad, but too many of them are just irritating.
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Uhmmm.... Can't remember what I wanted to write, ...
Has anyone read the book Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman?Its also about racial prejudice and is awfully touching.May appeal to those who find TKMB too slow and boring
Mi L--
The fragments all have a purpose. Every detail has a place in the novel. If you're not sure what that place is, bring it up in class. Your teacher and classmates will enjoy a lively discussion of such probing questions.
For example, consider the description of the Ewell home. This seems like a digression, but it helps us to understand what Mayella's life is like. The detail about the geraniums in the slop jars is especially telling: Mayella does want to have something nice in her life. Those couple of paragraphs help the reader to feel at least a little sympathy for Mayella. So does the line "She say what her daddy do to her don't count." Tom says this when he is telling his story of the alleged assault.
Thank you Charles S, you're right about that. Besides, I actually have no right to comment on such things as I haven't read all chapters properly. I'll 're-read' the novel this week, and this time I will read the novel at once.
I learned that stuff which seemed useless creates a certain atmosphere. And sometimes, although it doesn't look important, it might get important in the next few chapters. And some fragments a reader can only understand to its fullest when (s)he has already read the novel before, only then (s)he can realise it's 'real function'. (Ignore my English grammar...)
Haha, you just cleared my head. Thank you again Charles =] I should've been a more patient reader.
Personally, I loved this book. The way Harper Lee reveals the real prejudice, but she shows it in a more entertaining way, from a little girls perspective, although she is not a girl anymore but a grown woman looking back on her past and realizing how discriminative it was.
I can tell Coco s. and Charles S. have a great understanding of this book and respect it.
I would give this book 10/10!
Its a book that teaches alot of lessons and says alot of important things but it wasnt perfect. For starters it took for ever to get to what the book is truly about. The firlst oh I dont know 8-11 chapters had alot of unnessisay things scatteered about it and second i got bored qick in those chapters.therest was great however.'
I give it a 7or8 out of 10
robert, what looks like "unnecessary things" is many lessons for the children. The chapter on Mrs. Dubose teaches the kids about courage--it's not touching the Radley house or getting through a "haint" or shooting a rabid dog. It's facing certain defeat . . . just as Atticus does later in the novel. The chapter with Miss Maudie's fire shows Atticus in a helpful mode and Mr. Avery in a foolish one, getting stuck in the window. It also gives an opportunity for Boo Radley to do something for Scout. That chapter also has the snow "morphodite,' which shows the reader a lot about Jem Finch's brain power.
This is very good book!!! I recommend you to get the film and watch it. It is in black and white, but it's definitely worth it.
I give it an 9 and a half out of 10
Iv read to Kill a mocking bird twice once in middle school and again this year (10th grade) in high school.
i think the book is really intresting it gives you so many diffrent perspectives of life in the past it also shows you that thing that happened in the past still go on today. i admit the book has it boaring parts. I think that its a challenge of putting all the plots down because she has many i think more teenagers should take the time to read this book and appreate the fact that we pushed to succed from our schools.
Oh Gosh. Was supposed to be on here studying for exams, but when this topic popped out, I just kinda have to pass by and give it a reply. To Kill a Mockingbird, is probably one of my favourite books...The story is just so beautiful... the language is so well crafted... and its messages are just so true, so universal and so timeless. Maybe I am just a weird person, but I didn't put the book down, till I was near the end Part 1, went to sleep... Woke up the next day and just kept reading... There is just so much to learn from the book and so much to take from it.
Though I must admit that I just hate it when someone asks "What is To Kill a Mockingbird about?" and people just give the simple answer "It's about prejudice."... I just feel that the book just has so many more messages, like the fact that you don't really "understand" a man until you "step into his shoes" and walk around in them, or "most people" are "real nice" when you finally get to see them, that courage is when you know you're "licked" before you start, but you "see it through" and do it anyway. It is true that Lee shows readers so much about racism and prejudice, but the fact that you must live to understand and accept others, whilst appreciating their goodness and forgiving their bad qualities is equally important as well.
(Read through some of the material on "Lord of the Flies" on this site... they are really good summaries and notes! Hopefully the Mockingbird notes will also be really great as well :).
@ mauricio v: I agree the film is pretty awesome as well... (Usually when a book is adapted into a film, it turns into rubbish; but this one did not!) But don't you reckon that it is so fitting that the film is in black and white... I dun reckon I would watch a film on Mockingbird in colour, unless of course, someone tells me it is really good.
These book is awesome. it is one of the few that openned my eyes to see the world in a different prespective
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