Despite the advanced word choices in the book, I think that Harper Lee is writing very good. The dialogs is simple and easy to read and she is good at writing exciting and funny at the same time. When it is a serious scene in the book, Harper knows exactly where to put the comic parts, and where to out the sad ones.
The fact that it is a lot of "Southern-slang" is not so disturbing, it just makes it more clear where the story takes place. (Example: "Dunno" instead of "I don't know", and "I works"instead of "I work")
I think it was very good that the book is written on the true language for where it is set, in Southern America.
The conflict in the book is of course Tom Robinson's fight against the justice. That he is accused for a crime he did not do and the long trial where Atticus did his best to help him, is probably the main climax in To kill a mockingbird. But at the same time you read about the story with Boo Radley, which has an important part through the whole novel. At first sight, the two different storylines has nothing to do with each other, at my opinion. But when I thought about it a little, they kind of told the same message. Both storylines tells about something that nobody is understanding or accepting. Tom Robinson is, together with all the black people, not accepted and is not as much worth as the white people in town. The same is it with Boo Radley, who has been a mystery for the town's population for ages and that nobody's really cared about. However, even if the two storylines is not related to each other, they tell about the same kind of problem: to discriminate and judge people before you even know them. In the end of the book, Scout learns about this. To not judge other before have walking in their shoes. That the prejudices are the things that make people alone, and not accepted. I think that Scout learned that both Tom was not as the society saw him, and that Boo was different than she thought at first.
According to Jem, there are four kinds of "folks" in Maycomb County. "There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, there's the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes. " (p.249)
What is said about these folks, is that they are very different, and that is splitting the town. They don't like each other and can not be with each other, mainly because they are different. I think it is at the same way in Sweden, and in many other countries. Just because you are different, you take distance from each other. Instead of using the good things. Of some kind of reason, the odd things and the differences between people is frightening, the things that are not like ourselves makes us scared.
Atticus is not like the others in the town, because he is so relieved from all the prejudices and bad things everybody says. And the reason why he can see good things in everybody is quite hard to figure out. But I think he may be like he is because he is a lawyer. As a lawyer you are not supposed to judge people before you know their story.
I think that Too kill a mockingbird has a clear message, it is even in the title. It is that you should not judge anyone before you know them, their story and what they have experienced. The title "To kill a mockingbird" tells also, as on p.99, that it is a sin to hurt someone who is so kind and un-evil, and who would never do something to hurt anyone itself. It is a sin to do something bad to anyone innocent, before you can prove the opposite.
The fact that it is a lot of "Southern-slang" is not so disturbing, it just makes it more clear where the story takes place. (Example: "Dunno" instead of "I don't know", and "I works"instead of "I work")
I think it was very good that the book is written on the true language for where it is set, in Southern America.
The conflict in the book is of course Tom Robinson's fight against the justice. That he is accused for a crime he did not do and the long trial where Atticus did his best to help him, is probably the main climax in To kill a mockingbird. But at the same time you read about the story with Boo Radley, which has an important part through the whole novel. At first sight, the two different storylines has nothing to do with each other, at my opinion. But when I thought about it a little, they kind of told the same message. Both storylines tells about something that nobody is understanding or accepting. Tom Robinson is, together with all the black people, not accepted and is not as much worth as the white people in town. The same is it with Boo Radley, who has been a mystery for the town's population for ages and that nobody's really cared about. However, even if the two storylines is not related to each other, they tell about the same kind of problem: to discriminate and judge people before you even know them. In the end of the book, Scout learns about this. To not judge other before have walking in their shoes. That the prejudices are the things that make people alone, and not accepted. I think that Scout learned that both Tom was not as the society saw him, and that Boo was different than she thought at first.
According to Jem, there are four kinds of "folks" in Maycomb County. "There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, there's the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes. " (p.249)
What is said about these folks, is that they are very different, and that is splitting the town. They don't like each other and can not be with each other, mainly because they are different. I think it is at the same way in Sweden, and in many other countries. Just because you are different, you take distance from each other. Instead of using the good things. Of some kind of reason, the odd things and the differences between people is frightening, the things that are not like ourselves makes us scared.
Atticus is not like the others in the town, because he is so relieved from all the prejudices and bad things everybody says. And the reason why he can see good things in everybody is quite hard to figure out. But I think he may be like he is because he is a lawyer. As a lawyer you are not supposed to judge people before you know their story.
I think that Too kill a mockingbird has a clear message, it is even in the title. It is that you should not judge anyone before you know them, their story and what they have experienced. The title "To kill a mockingbird" tells also, as on p.99, that it is a sin to hurt someone who is so kind and un-evil, and who would never do something to hurt anyone itself. It is a sin to do something bad to anyone innocent, before you can prove the opposite.
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