To Kill A Mocking Bird
Without Prejudice
The book is about Prejudice in the American South. Prejudice against fellow human beings that just happened to be born African American. And there had been slavery in the past. So some of the people in the American South, the white people, neither liked or trusted the African American. They were "different".
It's also about ignorance that people hated other people just becasue of the colour of their skin. Not realising that under someone's skin is just another human being.
I love this book, it's incredibly simple and complex at the same time. The whole story is told or narrated by a young tomboy girl, Scout. And I was a tomboy so straight away I could relate to her. Her Mother has died, leaving her older brother, Jem and her with their widowed Dad.
Scout and Jems' Dad is a small town lawyer and has a great sense of responsibilty and decency to all human beings. I love the role that Gregory Peck, the actor, plays. It's one of the most famous roles ever played in a film and Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for the superb job he does of the job.
Scout speaks in old fashioned "50"'s, Southern accent, so some of the words are a bit hard to fathom. Times have changed in a massive way from when the novel was set. Times were not as free as they are now. In those days a relationship between a black man and white woman were frowned on. There is a character of a white poor girl, she's poor and lives with a rotten drunken Dad.
the only person that is ever nic
The book is about Prejudice in the American South. Prejudice against fellow human beings that just happened to be born African American. And there had been slavery in the past. So some of the people in the American South, the white people, neither liked or trusted the African American. They were "different".
It's also about ignorance that people hated other people just becasue of the colour of their skin. Not realising that under someone's skin is just another human being.
I love this book, it's incredibly simple and complex at the same time. The whole story is told or narrated by a young tomboy girl, Scout. And I was a tomboy so straight away I could relate to her. Her Mother has died, leaving her older brother, Jem and her with their widowed Dad.
Scout and Jems' Dad is a small town lawyer and has a great sense of responsibilty and decency to all human beings. I love the role that Gregory Peck, the actor, plays. It's one of the most famous roles ever played in a film and Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for the superb job he does of the job.
Scout speaks in old fashioned "50"'s, Southern accent, so some of the words are a bit hard to fathom. Times have changed in a massive way from when the novel was set. Times were not as free as they are now. In those days a relationship between a black man and white woman were frowned on. There is a character of a white poor girl, she's poor and lives with a rotten drunken Dad.
the only person that is ever nic
