Sunday, December 14, 2014

To Kill a Mocking Bird - FINISHED

I have finally finished the book, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee and I find this book very interesting. It is a Autobiography talking about her life right before the Civil Rights Movement and how life was like there.

Lee talks about the night of the pageant using foreshadowing, The pageant is suppose to show the small town's pride, as the lady is spending 30 minutes talking about Maycomb. A mood of suspense embarks on Jem and Scout's walk home. They hear noises and think that it is only Cecil Jacobs and realize that they are in danger. They are getting closer to home but are still terrified because they have no idea what is happening. Lot of the clues point to Ewell attacking Atticus, but not the children. Then they realize that Ewell is to coward to be able to attack.

Boo Radley enters and Scout doesn't realize that they have saved them until they reached home. Boo, mostly know as a ghost, finally comes out and saves them. Scout takes the first steps to Boo making this more of a grown-up moral of a perspective.

The decision of Heck Tate to spare Boo the horror of publicity by claiming that Bob Ewell died by falling on his knife.  This helps show the theme of the story. Not only has Boo became a real person to her, but also saved many people lives such as her children.

The novel ends by Atticus reading to Scout.

In my opinion, I thought this book wouldn't be that good because I don't really like to read books like this, but after reading it, my mind changed and I loved this book. I recommend this book to everyone because it is very good and it will take you in and you can't ever stop reading.

Sunday, December 7, 2014

To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

For my third and final book, I am reading How To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. The story is about a girl named Nelle Harper Lee who was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. The story takes place in a sleepy small town. The story would talk about her childhood. It would potray a lot about how were where ever you place them.

I have finished almost half of the book. There are are many different charcters which are in the story, examples include Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, Atticus Finch , Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch, Bob Ewell, Charles Baker “Dill” Harris, Miss Maudie Atkinson, Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra  and, Mayella Ewell. 

I just read about a fire in which it happened a little before the middle of the book. It was a great turning pount in the book which got my attention. Before the fire, the story was talking about Scouts's childhood and what she was would do. After the fire quickly happened, she remembers even more memories she had in the past. This brings a great deal of problems and brings a loss of "innocent theme". As more and more of these problems occur more concers will take place.

I am excited to know what will come next after this!