Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

58 reviews

hybridtulips's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Just incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Gun violence

Moderate: Classism, Animal death, and Ableism

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Death

The sensitive topics in this book are handled surprisingly well and progressively considering its age.

elspethmigliore's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

i usually wouldn’t find myself rating a book i read for school so high, but i think this story deserves it. 

there’s so many layers to this story and so much to unpack, so i’ll just say that i genuinely enjoyed it. i know it’s controversial, but i really did like it. i laughed and cried and i think it was very reflective in many ways. the character development was incredible, but also i guess that’s the point of the story. the way scout reflects on her story at the end from a different perspective gave me a very strong sense of completeness. i’m sad after reading this, but also i feel ready to go into my english class tomorrow and reflect on it.

definitely a reread ✅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Cursing, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Classism, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Grief, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Violence, Sexual content, Sexism, Addiction, Suicide, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Child abuse

modrinkscoffee's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Death, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, and Hate crime

Moderate: Animal death, Terminal illness, and Sexism

lexibrownie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

read this for english class and loved the writing style after i got used to it (30ish pages). the topics explored are hard to get through and the ethics of the white author’s usage of racial slurs throughout the book are not my place to speak on, but something to be aware of. overall, i found the story to be deeply moving and i think it’s worth your time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Sexism, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal death, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Antisemitism, and Classism

wolfie_larue's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

 I didn't really enjoy the first third of the book as most of the novel contains of dialogue and that's just something I don't like if it's too much.

I also skipped an entire chapter about the dog, that's was so unnecessary and unrelevant and actually makes me angry that the author put that in the book. 

All those things aside, the further I got into it the more I started enjoying the book. 

Attickus finch is such an amazing character, I wish I knew him in real life and I also really love jem and scout. 

I think the message it's trying to tell is important as well and I feel like if I reread this book I would enjoy it more than the first time! But I'll always skip the chapter about the dog 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

jmeyers888's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Animal death, Bullying, Murder, Racial slurs, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Hate crime, Alcoholism, and Violence

Minor: Rape

linealugter's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Minor: Rape and Slavery

zonboi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Animal death, Death, Racism, and Rape

Moderate: Sexism

nindie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

I read this book for my English homework since we have coursework or an exam based around it counting towards my GCSE grade. In short, my teacher forced my class and me to read it within a deadline which is never helpful in enjoying a book personally.

While reading the book, my main thought was constantly wishing to finish the book. Not only was it because I had a deadline coming up, but also it was because I found the book to be predominantly dull. There were many descriptions, characters, scenarios and even chapters that I felt were pointless in including or making a lengthy part of the book when it was unnecessary. A lot of these things included barely contributed to the plot, characters and overall themes. Because of this, the only sections where I had an interest in because they were significant were the

court trial involving Tom Robinson and the ending where Arthur Radley saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell.

Other things that were significant to the story were written out in a lengthy way that contributed to the dullness of the book.

There is another thing in which I found a problem, but this was just my personal preferences. I know that society's attitudes towards some communities were very disrespectful and corrupt at the time of this book. Despite this, I still felt tremendously uncomfortable reading this book because of the language used and the characters, even when aware of this information. It isn't the book's fault, in a way. It's because I don't feel as comfortable reading stuff like this, and I had to read this book for school and wasn't aware of how many things like this are in the book.

A last thing to say is I found too many characters included. Assumingly half mentioned wasn't necessary for anything or were mentioned in only 1-3 unimportant sentences. At one point, there were so many that I couldn't keep track of who was who.

All I was pointing out were negative points, but I like the themes it discusses, and I look forward to analysing the text thoroughly to learn more about those themes for my school work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Confinement, Rape, Violence, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Cursing, Animal death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

Minor: Antisemitism, Bullying, Grief, Gun violence, Alcohol, Child abuse, Incest, War, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, and Suicide

owlshiddenlibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Hate crime, Incest, Racism, Domestic abuse, Death, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Blood, Sexism, and Cursing

Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury