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roniloo 's review for:
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
adventurous
reflective
sad
medium-paced
-It’s a 5 star book because it’s a beautifully written classic but a 4 to me and my brain today.
-Many many quotable quotes and heartfelt takeaways but jeebus christo, how did Black students and teachers feel about this book as required reading?? SO MUCH of the n word, so much pandering to the subtly racist audience (eg just how it is/keeping the peace) by using the narrative view of a literal child.
-Also. Justice for Tom’s story. Boo Radley is saved from court and ultimately kept safe by the Moral Men of the story and yet they ask us to move on from Tom’s injustice, to let things get back to “normal” all while calling him a boy. Then our narrator is falling asleep during a conversation about how north white people are hypocritical with Black people - preaching equality but refusing to eat with them, while the south is honest - no judgement but you do your thing and we’ll do ours, separately.
Excuse me? Who’re we supposedly rooting for. Or is it just a painful narrative of what was socially acceptable to debate in the 30s?
-Revolutionary for 1960s but less heroic today. Something to now study for different reasons.
-Many many quotable quotes and heartfelt takeaways but jeebus christo, how did Black students and teachers feel about this book as required reading?? SO MUCH of the n word, so much pandering to the subtly racist audience (eg just how it is/keeping the peace) by using the narrative view of a literal child.
-Also. Justice for Tom’s story. Boo Radley is saved from court and ultimately kept safe by the Moral Men of the story and yet they ask us to move on from Tom’s injustice, to let things get back to “normal” all while calling him a boy. Then our narrator is falling asleep during a conversation about how north white people are hypocritical with Black people - preaching equality but refusing to eat with them, while the south is honest - no judgement but you do your thing and we’ll do ours, separately.
Excuse me? Who’re we supposedly rooting for. Or is it just a painful narrative of what was socially acceptable to debate in the 30s?
-Revolutionary for 1960s but less heroic today. Something to now study for different reasons.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs
Moderate: Rape