To Kill A Mockingbird, describe it. Options

[short_stop08]

I read relatively fast first of all. I only have three days of summer left and I want to know has anyone read To Kill A Mockingbird. What's it about? Did you like it?

[kill.t3h.r0cK]

Loved it! It's about racism. You know that ooh, I forget names, I read this during the school year, sorry. Well, the girl, her father, Atticus is a lawyer. He has always taught his son, Gem, && daughter, [I forget her name] to judge everybody fairly. Considering the setting && time of setting, it's about racism, how he had taught his children to never judge, blah blah. He is appointed to defend a black man who was charged for trying to "take advantage" of a white woman...That's all I can really say, I didn't read the last 2 chapters because I had to return my book.

I suggest reading or at least skimming through the last chapters that contain the case && what his verdict is at the end of the book if you didn't already.

[x3chrissyx3]

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favorite books ever...a lot of symbolism but whatever.

The book is really about judging people and racism and stuff like that. Gem and Scouts father whom they call Atticus is a lawyer, he to protect Tom Robinson...I believe his name was? He was charged with basically harrassing a white woman who was coming onto him. Gem and Scout and all the kids talk about this guy Boo Radley who they think is scary...until they meet him, and yeah, it's a good book.Skim it though, and Sparknotes.com has it, so review the chapers and stuff.

[short_stop08]

Thanks for the responses so far. I have continued skimming through it and it's pretty good. Continue to post though.

[freeflow]

I Read it during the school year , i loved it . It was basically about a little girl i forgot her name and her brother and there friend dill(?) . Also about the racism in the town and what not . They had a big case going on involving jim & scout(i remember the names now) father as the lawyer of a case for tom robinson he was accused to raping a woman who was basically all up on him . Then tom didn't win the case , well i forgot and what not but tom ends up dying . Boo Radley was a boy in the book that scout , jim , and dill where trying to make come out because there were plenty of rumors in the town about boo radley. Boo kind of communicates with the kids in the book through mysterious ways . Then eventually in the end of the book they finally see boo when he saves jim? yea im pretty sure it was jim. Then scout walks home with boo and she learns that hes just a normal man and what not.

If you can't finish the whole thing you can always try sparknotes or something . by reading them online.

[Purplefender86]

I had to read it for a class but I only red parts of it. That's more than I red in other books. From spark notes and what I read I would have been an awesome book. The movie was cute too. I realy like it a lot.

[nopattern]

I'm almost finished reading it. It seems really good. And you should probably at least try reading the book. Spark notes don't cut it lots of the time, so I've been told.

you know...for these books
i hardly read them

i just go up on sites like sparknotes.com and read the chapter summaries, it basically covers everything that u need to know

[short_stop08]

Oh the test to this book was easy thanks for all of your help. She gave us a review sheet yesterday and we got the answers from friends and then had the test today over the same thing.

[blubpancake99]

Here's some more on the ending...

There's this family of dirt poor people Scout knows who live, pretty much, in the town dump. One of the children, Mariella (?) liked to ask Tom Robinson (a black man) to come in and pay him a knickel to do chores, and eventually, she tried to kiss him and her racist father saw. Her father began beating her (I don't remember the father's name) so to protect herself she told him Tom had raped her. She brought it to court and Scout's father, Atticus, was Tom's lawyer. Tom did lose the case and get put in jail, where he tried to escape and was shot, but Atticus made Mariella's father look like a fool in front of everyone. Mariella's father swore he would get back at Atticus after that. When Jem and Scout are walking home from their school play, Mariella's father goes crazy attacking them. Scout was wearing this costume made of paper mache and wire or something which protected her (otherwise she probably would have died) and Jem had a broken arm and was knocked unconcious. Neither of them really saw what happened, so you really have to read between the lines to figure it out. My english teacher explained it to us. Basically, Boo Radley comes out (which is amazing because he has only been outside like twice in ten years) with a big kitchen knife and stabs Mariellas father, who dies, in order to protect the children. Then the sherrif comes, but to prevent there from being a big to-do about it he takes away Mariella's father's knife and claims he simply "fell on his knife" even though the knife that killed him was actually Boo's. Does that make any sense? I had to read it for english this year and write a paper on it.

[blubpancake99]

*sorry about the double post*

[mzislandpinay]

i saw a play on it.. but i didn't read it.. i'll get back to you at it.. after i wakeup.. cuz i can't think straight.. but you should go to sparknotes.com or something if you need a summary//

[short_stop08]

I kind of read it really quick as you all know the first time for our test. I just read it again and it was ok.

[Teesa]

Since you already read it, I think it's safe to close this now. If you want to discuss it, please post here:

http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php...&hl=mockingbird