Sunday, March 8, 2009

To Kill a Mocking Bird

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This novel is the only book written by Harper Lee, but that was sufficient to enrage and give a the true picture of the rural America with all the eccentricities and the racial discrimination prevailing at that time.

My favourite character will be always Boo Radley, he watched everything and left gifts for the kids. He was the person to save the kids in the end and also I could relate to him because of my three years of depression and how I used to watch the kids plays games which was comprehensible to them only. I loved the part when Scout leads him back home after the fight and killing of Ewell.

Atticus was very upright man with a heart at the right place

This book taught me how a holiday of three children can be filled with fun and knowledge, it also reminds of my childhood where we used to play word games and hide and seeks and going to the woods and to the lake to fish.

But the book also depicts the abject poverty and the courage to fight a mean battle leading to the death of innocence.

This book will be always in my memory for all the good things it taught me.