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thecrownofthesun 's review for:
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
More like 2.5 stars tbh..
Look, I get how this is an important book. Considering the time it was written, I understand how it may have woken up white Americans to their hypocrisy when it comes to racism and change their opinion about it. Nevertheless, this is basically a white saviour story. A story about how a white man helps poor helpless black people even if that puts him and his family in danger. It took me a really long time to finish this book because it made me deeply uncomfortable. I didn’t understand why at first but I now know it is because the black characters were nothing more than plot points to further the story. Objects that were conveniently there when the main character needed to learn a life lesson. Men like Atticus Finch are rare and this book feels like it completely ignores the efforts black people put in their own liberation. Maybe it was the author’s goal to change white people’s mind on the topic but still…
The only thing I liked about the book was the fact it was told from the perspective of a child. It showed how racism can be/is taught and how plainly stupid and incompressible racism is.
Look, I get how this is an important book. Considering the time it was written, I understand how it may have woken up white Americans to their hypocrisy when it comes to racism and change their opinion about it. Nevertheless, this is basically a white saviour story. A story about how a white man helps poor helpless black people even if that puts him and his family in danger. It took me a really long time to finish this book because it made me deeply uncomfortable. I didn’t understand why at first but I now know it is because the black characters were nothing more than plot points to further the story. Objects that were conveniently there when the main character needed to learn a life lesson. Men like Atticus Finch are rare and this book feels like it completely ignores the efforts black people put in their own liberation. Maybe it was the author’s goal to change white people’s mind on the topic but still…
The only thing I liked about the book was the fact it was told from the perspective of a child. It showed how racism can be/is taught and how plainly stupid and incompressible racism is.