To+Kill+A+Mockingbird

22 April 2009 Julia Song ESOLAcLit9

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD ~Harper Lee~ This book, "To Kill A Mockingbird" awoke me in the middle of April. It is a novel written by Harper Lee who then recieved a Pulitzer in 1960. I found that Lee wrote this book according to her past memories and observations in her childhood.

Scout Finch and her older brother, Jem, are the main characters and the story focuses on the racial inequalities and existence of prejudice even in 1930's. The story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in which is fictionally named. Tom Robinson is a black guy and soon gets involved in a case that he raped Bob Ewell's daughter, Mayella Ewell. However, in fact Tom Robinson is the victim since lonely Mayella tries to sexually approach to him, and Bob Ewell discovers this sight and puts him in a court. Scout and Jem's father, Atticus Finch, is in charge of defending Tom. Since he knows innocence of Tom, Atticus tries the best to defend him and prove Bob wrong. Unfortunately, Tom goes to a jail and eventually gets shot and killed in an attempt to escape from the jail. Even after that, Bob can not release his rage and threatens Tom's widow wife. On Halloween, Bob therefore goes up to Jem and Scout in their way home and attack them, but he soon dies simply of the knife falling down on him and the two kids get rescued by Boo Radley, a mysterious guy who has given the kids gifts but not has been repaid.

Even though I thought this story as a very complicated and perplexed, the idea of Lee was great and reminded me of racial discrimination and simple misconceptions about races. I recommend this book to everyone since this is a great piece of literature and also is a good source of realizing the social and literal background of that time despite it being a fiction. Lee especially portrayed a strong theme of this book relating to racial inequality and I appreciate how she writes a word with a more detailed and puzzled meanings and how she describes in such different words that I'd always have to search for the definition. Overall, I enjoyed reading this amazing novel!


 * Podcast Script **

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This is Julia Song from BRC or so called Book Review Center. Today, I came up with a book, __To Kill A Mockingbird__. And here it goes our review for the day!

This book, "To Kill A Mockingbird" awoke me in the middle of April. It is a novel written by Harper Lee who then received a Pulitzer Prize in 1960. I found that Lee wrote this book according to her past memories and observations in her childhood.

Scout Finch and her older brother, Jem, are the main characters and the story focuses on the racial inequalities and existence of prejudice even in 1930's. The story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in which is fictionally named. Tom Robinson is a black man and he soon gets involved in a case that he raped Bob Ewell's daughter, Mayella Ewell. However, Tom Robinson, in fact, is rather a victim since lonely Mayella tries to sexually approach to him, and Bob Ewell discovers this sight and puts him in court. Scout and Jem's father, Atticus Finch, is in charge of defending Tom as a lawyer. Atticus tries the best to claim Tom's innocence and to defend him and to prove Ewell wrong. Unfortunately, Tom goes to a jail and eventually gets shot and killed in an attempt to escape from the jail. Even after that, Bob Ewell cannot release his rage and threatens Tom's widow wife. On Halloween, Bob goes up to Jem and Scout in their way home and attack them with a knife, but he soon dies simply of his knife sticking onto his foot. The two frightened kids ,then, get rescued by Boo Radley, a mysterious man who has given the kids gifts but not has been repaid.

Even though I thought that this story was very complicated and perplexed, the idea of Lee is appreciating and reminding me of racial discrimination and simple misconceptions about races. I recommend this book to everyone since this is a great piece of literature and also is a good source of realizing the social and literal background of that time despite it being a fiction. Lee especially portrayed a strong theme of this book relating to racial inequality and I appreciate how she writes a word with a more detailed and puzzled meanings and how she describes in such different words that I would always have to search for the definition. Overall, I enjoyed reading this amazing novel!

Now you have listened to my review, how about going to the library this weekend and trying this great piece of literature? Remember that it is called __To Kill A Mockingbird__ by Harper Lee. Thank you for listening to the review for the day of BRC.