To kill a mockingbird
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Re: To kill a mockingbird
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I'm sorry, but that's saying the elderly who enjoy reading wouldn't be able to understand modern books. They'll see it as "trends" this generation does instead of actually "understanding" the book. Of course youth today would understand "To Kill a Mockingbird." Even though the Civil Rights Act was passed, it doesn't mean discrimination has gone away. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is not a history lesson. It's an eye opener of how truly wrong our society is.AMP76 wrote: ↑16 Mar 2014, 14:04 Classified as classic literature, I wonder if at this time in our society, the youth would even understand this piece except as a history lesson. Mockingbird is a coming of age book, and exemplifies individual thought formation and consequences of moral action. However, since the Civil Rights Act, many instances of prejudice and racism have been diminished, hence the history lesson for today’s youth.
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I totally agree with your analysis concerning the writer's decision to write from a child's perspective. As a kid going into this book blind, and not really knowing anything about race relations, I realize that some of the finer points escaped me, just like how some of Scott's observations came to her without context.akankssha23 wrote: ↑19 Feb 2014, 05:34 I've only recently read the book...
I guess one of the factors to have contributed to its success is how the writer has actually imagined the child's perspective and written about it in a manner that makes it lucid for the reader as well... a child doesn't know skin color or literacy level .. it only knows what is taught to him/her..
we take the world as it is for granted, not knowing the difficult lives that were led by the colored people back then; an eye opener for me at least!
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