The Mocking Death of Big Bird

"To Kill a Mockingbird" was a rather obvious, shallow children's book. the themes were perfect for the obvious, shallow, soon to be Hippies, of the Self Involved, Democrat-Social-Justice, Self-Righteous Baby Boomers.

I read the book in Junior High School when I also saw the movie. Both bored me. I found the tomboy Scout, who called her father by his first name, irritating. I also found Atticus boring and irritating. The trial was just another, but lesser irritation, with its  obvious fairytale outcome.

The only act of real consequence by Atticus Finch was to shoot a rabid dog. Still, I will never understand why he didn't just pocket his eyeglasses, which he needed, but interfered with his sighting the rifle, instead of throwing them in the street. Dramatic action I guess, but another source of irritation.

The book leaves one big literary question: Did Truman Capote fix Harper Lee's manuscript so it could get published? m/r

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John Reid  February 19, 2016

Harper Lee’s death is making international headlines, though she is known for only one accomplishment: To Kill a Mockingbird.
The book reinforced the prejudices of the America’s elite and earned Lee eternal adulation by showing a heroic liberal lawyer, Atticus Finch, standing up to the racist, small-minded segregationist South. But last year’s release of Go Set a Watchmen, an earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, tempered the adulation for Finch. As the New York Times notes in Lee’s obituary, “[M]any readers, who had grown up idolizing Atticus, were crushed by his portrayal, 20 years on, as a staunch defender of segregation.” [Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89, by William Grimes, February 19, 2016]

To me, it makes Lee and her most famous character much more interesting.

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