It's nearly criminal that I've taught To Kill a Mockingbird for so long and read it so many times, and yet I haven't written a review for Goodreads. But this is the year that I'm writing a review for every book I read, so a To Kill a Mockingbird review must be posted.
To say that this novel is a timeless classic is greatly cliche, I know, but there is so much that continues to reverberate to today. Reading Mockingbird makes me feel as if life can be simpler even today amid the hustle and busy of modern-day technology.
As an educator, I believe that To Kill a Mockingbird embodies everything that modern education stands for through the characters of Atticus and Scout Finch. The lessons that Atticus teaches to his children go beyond the classroom, which didn’t quite live up to young Scout’s expectations. These lessons are the moral life lessons preparing Scout and her brother, Jem, for adult life when issues such as racism, discrimination, and cruelty are part of a daily routine. This education prepares the children to be good people, wise as well as intelligent, and this is what matters when they have the power of knowledge. Atticus is not only a father but also a leader who guides by example. This is evident to his children and the townspeople when he commits to a job that no one else wants to do, defending Tom Robinson. He does this not only because he is the lawyer appointed but because he is guided by integrity and his moral conscience. He is courageous and empathetic, serving as a role model to his children and others willing to learn the lessons he teaches.
While many texts from the high school canon teach valuable lessons to today’s youth, none do so as thoroughly as To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee uses the innocence of Scout and Jem to teach readers to see the world through the eyes of a child and realize that discrimination is a learned trait, taught along with spelling and reading. Scout sees everyone basically the same. This is very apparent in Chapter 23 when Jem tries to explain social class to Scout and she responds saying, “Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks” (231). Scout believes that each person is born equal regardless of race or class. Her perspective and beliefs reflect her father’s tolerant disposition which he has successfully passed down to his daughter.
I believe the lessons of To Kill a Mockingbird are just as relevant today as they were in 1960 when the book was published, and for this reason, it is one of the most important books taught in high schools today.

February 22, 2023

I finished the reread and increased the rating to 5.

Some quotes:

"Telling the turth is not cynical, is it?"

"It's not time to worry yet."

"...we're making a step -- it's a baby step, but it's a step."


February 20, 2023

Yesterday I started rereading To Kill A Mockingbird by listening to the audiobook narrated by Sissy Spacek. Today I got to where Atticus Finch tells his daughter Scout, "Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird."

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I read this in high school right after I saw the movie on TV. I don't remember much about the movie and even less about the book. I guess I'm due for a reread.

Me ha gustado mucho la atmosfera del pueblo la visión de la niña (Scout) en los acontecimientos de su niñez, como, la intolerancia el racismo, el clasismo.
Scout es un personaje entrañable y Atticus.
A la saca de favoritos.
Muy recomendable. La película también magnífica.
9/10
# 26. Un libro con un título engañoso. Reto Popsugar 2022.
# 26. El libro con mas valoraciones de tu lista de pendientes de goodreads. Reto lecturas pendientes 2022.

If the total output of your entire career should include only one thing, make it something special.

Not only was To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee's only novel, at one point she nearly destroyed it. That would have been a terrible loss, for - coming from an insular, white-New England upbringing - this book was a game changer for me and my young outlook on life and race relations. Having read it as a youth, it's coming-of-age or loss-of-innocence theme spoke to me while the idea of equal rights for all held by the "liberal" Southern Atticus Finch seemed heroic and opened my eyes to the closeted bigotry around me. I know I'm not alone in my reaction and the effects it had upon me.

Perhaps Lee didn't write another novel, because she took to heart the maxim "write what you know" and this was the one and only novel within her. It seems a shame such a good writer should have produced and be judged by only one book, but at least she made that one book something special.

A friend of mine once commented that To Kill a Mockingbird was the most racist book he'd ever read.

I agree with him. Now, I know this book is drawn from the author's true experiences, but she choose to write a novel and thus I will judge it as a novel. With it's irrevocable integration into the American (and Canadian) public school curricula, I think this novel has probably done more to perpetuate racial stereotypes than any other single force.

If I had to sum up To Kill a Mockingbird in one sentence, this would be it: the poor helpless black man is lost until a saintly white man comes to his side to crusade for his cause. Unfortunately, the damn darkie is so stupid that he goes and gets himself killed just when the white man figured he had another shot at clearing him. Oh well, the white man tried his best, and for a negro too! What a hero.

What the hell is that?

Even in the evil times when John Crow ruled the South and the Blacks were scarcely more free than in times of slavery and were allowed no civic power nor respect from their erswhile masters who were White, good men did their best.

As regards this book, the last phrase is a lie.

Atticus, a lawyer and good and caring father, a moral man, represented a Black man accused of raping a White woman. He lost, but he'd done his best.

That last paragraph is a lie.

Atticus belonged to the KKK, thought that Blacks were a distinctly lower form of human life and that separate development (ie. apartheid) was the best way to go for these childlike people who didn't have the reasoning power to rule, he said in Go Set a Watchman.

That last paragraph is mostly a lie.

Atticus did belong to the KKK but he did not really think Blacks were a lower form of human life at all. That was just what he said for the benefit of others. He really thought their intellectual power and ability to organise was greatly to be feared. He was frightened that Whites would have to give up having a life of ease and wealth structured around the cheap labour Black people had no alternative but to provide. He didn't even want to have to consider them at all.

Atticus represented the accused Black rapist only because if a White lawyer didn't then he was sure the NAACP would send in a very clever Black lawyer and not only that but insist, since these times were officially 'free', that Black people sit on the jury. Then he would not be sure of a conviction. The Blacks then feeling their oats would move in to the town and start demanding rights and power much to the detriment of the extremely exploitative and racist Whites.

When Harper Lee wrote all this, in Go Set a Watchman her publishers were apparently horrified and got her to rewrite the book from the point of view of a decent man who felt racism was a great evil, we were all equal. Is this why Harper Lee never wrote another book? Did she feel that her views were unacceptable and she wasn't going to kow-tow to some liberal publishers up North who didn't understand the ways of the South? Is that why she didn't give interviews too? She'd followed the advice of her publishers, been lauded and rewarded but humiliated as an artist.

Schools still teaching this book as a moral lesson should incorporate their understanding of the first draft, Go Set a Watchman. Otherwise they are doing the children a disservice in their moral education and furthering the ideas of paternalism is better than self-determination, racism had its softer side and that ignoring the truth (Watchman) to tell a good story is a perfectly fine concept for educationalists to embrace. It's not.

Five stars because it is a very well-written and enjoyable book and hangs together with Go Set a Watchman perfectly.

Read years ago, probably about 1 Jan 2000

YouTube kanalımda Bülbülü Öldürmek kitabını çizimlerimle yorumladım: https://youtu.be/q93UBZZMgYM

"Irkçılık ideolojik bir düşünce değil, aksine psikolojik bir hastalıktır." Malcolm X

Bülbülü öldürmek günahtır. Çünkü bülbül yaratılışından ötürü bülbüldür, kendisini bülbül olarak seçemez. Onun ızdırari kaderinde zaten bülbül olmak vardır ve bundan dolayı da suçlu olarak gösterilmemelidir.

Çocukların Boo Radley'in evine dokunmayı bile çok zor bir şeymiş gibi görmeleri, öğretmenlerinden itibaren başlayan bir Kuzey-Güney, laik-muhafazakar, gezici-çomar vs. küçümsemeleri ve insanları sınıflandırmaları, yok Cunningham'lar şöyle yok Ewell'lar böyle diye insanların sınıf sınıf ayrılmaları, onların kilisesi beyaz bizim kilisemiz siyah gibi dinde bile ayrımcılığa uğramaları, Atticus Finch'in kendi ailesini yükseklere koyma egosu, elbise konusunda ve kız olma konuları gibi konularda mahalle baskıları gibi konular bir çocuğun gözünden anlatıldığı için bu kitabı değerli bir hale getirmekte.

Edebi olarak değerlendirecek olursak kitabın dili epey sade fakat vermek istediği mesaj güçlü. Öyle Debbie Macomber, Sarah Jio gibi aşk öyküleri ya da ciltlerinde kocaman yazılar yazan klonlaşmış polisiye kitaplarını unutabilirsiniz. Amerika'nın Maycomb adlı küçücük bir mahallesindesiniz. Hayatınızda o mahalleden dışarı çıkmamışsınız ve size "Beyaz kızarsa zenci ölür" diyen insanların zihniyetiyle aynı yerde yaşıyorsunuz.

İşte tam da bu sebeple bu romanın örneklerini bizim ülkemizde de görmek mümkün. Birbirimizi ötekileştiriyoruz. Bir Türk olarak zenci de doğabilirdik fakat Allah bize böyle olmayı uygun gördü. Fakat şimdi de ülkemizde laik-muhafazakar, Atatürkçü-sağcı, ateist-teist-deist, iktidar-muhalefet gibi çok sayıda ötekileştirmeler görüyoruz. Onun için bu kitabı aslında ülkemizle de çok bağdaştırdım. Bu bakımdan Scout kızımızın da romanda dediği gibi bizim ülke için demiş olduğu bir şey var aslında :
"Bak ama, Jem, bana kalırsa tek bir tür insan var, insanların hepsi insan."

Bu romanda hayata Tom Robinson olarak gelmiş olmayı düşünmelisiniz. Öyle bir ailede, öyle bir baskıda, hiçbir zaman sizin haklı olmayacağınız gibi görüşler içinde büyüdüğünüzü düşünmelisiniz. Bunun örneklerini şu anki zamanımızda Amerika'da görüyoruz. Artık polisler siyahilerin yollarda bir şey yapmadıklarını görseler bile çekip vuruyorlar adamı. İstedikleri kadar siyahiler buna tepki koysun, beyaz kızarsa zenci ölüyor romanın da dediği gibi.

Ayrıca kitabın 309. sayfasında Bayan Gates'in rol aldığı bir paragraf var :
"Burada biz insanlara zulmetmeyiz. Zulüm önyargılı insanlardan kaynaklanır. Ön-yar-gı."
Kitabın sadece bu cümleleri bile o kadar mükemmel ve yerinde bir Amerikan kültürü eleştirisidir ki Harper Lee ironik bir dille o mahallede yaşayan insanların önyargısını kendi dedikleriyle çeliştirmeyi başarmış resmen.

Hiç kimsenin dil, din, ırk, renk, milliyet gibi konularda ayrılmaması gerektiğini bir çocuğun gözünden harika bir şekilde anlatmayı başarmış kitaptır.

Kırdığım 1 puan ise kitabın başlarında olan sıkıcılıktan dolayı ve Radleyler'in esas mesajla pek bağlantısının bulunmamasından dolayıdır.

Rereading this book as an adult made me realize how truly beautiful and wonderful it is. It will forever be one of my favorites.

This review was a real labor of love. I rewrote it countless times to really capture the heart of it - my absolute favorite classic. The book has grabbed readers around the world, snagged big awards like the Pulitzer Prize, and stays one of the most checked-out titles in American libraries. Back in 2006, the British Library even named it a must-read for every adult.

In this review, I dove into the book’s historical background and explored all the cool parts of the story: the plot, the Tom Robinson case, the quirky neighbors, family life, and even Scout’s growing feminist awareness.

The story kicks off in a tiny Southern town called Maycomb, Alabama, where the Finch family lives - a family of 3: Atticus Finch (the dad), Jem (the older kid), Scout (the narrator and youngest), and Calpurnia, their housekeeper. Scout’s perspective gives us a unique, kid’s-eye view of everything happening around her.

From Scout’s point of view, her neighbors are a pretty odd bunch. The Cunninghams would rather starve than leave their land for work. The Ewells hunt out of season and barely show up at school after the first day. And then there’s Bob Ewell, who’s trouble and ends up causing major problems later on. Miss Maudie even loses her house to a fire, but she just laughs it off, saying she’s done with big houses. And then there's Boo Radley - a reclusive neighbor with wild rumors about him, like that he once stabbed his dad with scissors and has been locked up ever since.

The first part of the book is all about the mystery of Boo Radley. Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill are insanely curious about him, doing everything they can to try and get a glimpse of this mysterious guy.

To really get the story, you have to look at its backdrop. To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, but its events take place in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. After the stock market crash, the world was in a real tailspin - with 1 out of every 3 people out of work in the US. Tough times like these can really mess with people’s heads. The clash between old and new ways of thinking meant that anyone who dared to be different was often seen as an outsider.

Then there’s the racial backdrop of the Southern US. Even though the Civil War was over and slavery was abolished, Black folks in the 1930s South still faced harsh discrimination and were mostly stuck in low-status jobs. In the novel, Black characters are usually in roles like servants or laborers, facing all sorts of prejudice. Things only started to change later with the Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, let’s get to the heart of the story - the case.

While Scout, Jem, and Dill were busy speculating about Boo Radley, Atticus, the family lawyer, took on a case that turned everything upside down. He ended up defending Tom Robinson, a Black man accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Even though Atticus knew the odds were stacked against him, he took the case because he believed in doing what was right.

After Atticus took on the case, Scout and Jem got picked on at school. Even some relatives started calling their dad a “nigger-pleaser.” Little Scout was furious - she couldn’t understand why everyone was turning against her family or why her dad would stand up for someone like Tom.

So, what was the case really about?

Bob Ewell, the guy we mentioned earlier, claimed his daughter was raped by Tom Robinson. He said he’d heard Mayella screaming when he came home from the woods, saw Tom attacking her from the back, and by the time he got to the front, Tom had fled. But Tom pointed out on the stand that his left hand was crippled - he couldn’t have done what Bob claimed. In reality, Mayella often had Tom over to help out, and on that day, things got out of hand. Bob’s bruised white pride wouldn’t allow for any other explanation, so he twisted the story to keep his own reputation intact.

Atticus’s defense was one of the strongest parts of the novel. He laid out all the evidence, and everyone in the courtroom could see the truth. Still, the all-white jury found Tom guilty. While waiting for an appeal, Tom - desperate and hopeless - tried to escape and ended up being shot 17 times. Atticus was heartbroken, and Jem was deeply shaken by the sheer injustice of it all.

Even though everyone in the courtroom knew Bob and Mayella had set Tom up, deep-seated racism kept the truth hidden. Outraged by the verdict, Bob decided to get his revenge on Atticus. One day, while Scout and Jem were walking home from school, Bob attacked them. Thanks to a twist of fate (and Scout’s costume), Jem survived with only a broken arm, while Bob met a deadly end.

When Scout woke up, she remembered seeing Boo Radley standing nearby. It turned out that Boo, the town’s mysterious recluse, had been watching over them all along, acting as their secret protector.

So, what’s the deal with Boo Radley?

Boo symbolizes justice in a time of deep racial and social tensions. While society demonized Black men to keep their own sense of superiority, Boo - despite being shunned and misunderstood - showed genuine kindness. His isolation and the wild rumors about him reflect a community that lacked true compassion. Ironically, a man everyone assumed was dangerous ended up saving two white kids, while an innocent Black man, Tom Robinson, was tragically condemned.

Harper Lee isn’t taking sides by favoring one race over another. Instead, she exposes how systemic injustice harms everyone. In a prejudiced society, everyone ends up a victim in some way, and sometimes even those in power use that status to oppress others.

Aside from its heavy themes on race, the novel is also a deep dive into family and education.

Atticus Finch isn’t just a character - he’s become a role model. In fact, there’s even a statue of him in Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee’s hometown. After taking on Tom Robinson’s case, Atticus faced the full brunt of the town’s hatred, even when his own life was at risk. When young Scout couldn’t understand why her dad was doing what many thought was “wrong,” Atticus said, "If I don't do this, I'll never have the right to educate you again." That idea - that standing up for what’s right is the only way to truly teach your kids- is a thread that runs throughout the book.

Atticus believed that true parental love was built on loyalty and justice. He led by example, reading the newspaper with Scout every night and encouraging her to think for herself. He never forced traditional gender roles on either Scout or Jem, even when others expected him to. Even when everyone else was against him for defending a Black man, he stayed true to his principles, teaching his kids valuable lessons about honesty, fairness, and courage.

Now, about Scout - since the story is told from her point of view, we see how she grows and evolves as a character. Harper Lee weaves feminist ideas into the narrative, challenging the notion that women can only write small, unimportant stories. Scout’s journey is all about finding her own identity in a world that tries to box her in with outdated ideas about what it means to be a girl.

At first, Scout isn’t even aware of what she’s missing without a mother’s influence. But as she grows up, dealing with pressure from her aunt to be “more ladylike” and hearing her brother and others talk about what girls should or shouldn’t do, she starts to question those old-school ideas. She even tries to act more like a boy, thinking that’s the only way to be taken seriously. Thanks to Atticus and strong women like Miss Maudie, Scout begins to see that the only person she really needs to impress is herself.

A few fun tidbits:

The title: The mockingbird stands for innocence - harming one is like harming something pure.
The sequel: There’s a follow-up called Go Set a Watchman, which was actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird but only published later.
The film: The 1962 movie adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird won three Academy Awards, and Gregory Peck’s portrayal of Atticus Finch is still iconic today.

5 / 5 stars

to kill a mockingbird is my favorite book of all time if not my greatest the distinction is important. I was not going to do a review because it's so personal. I did not want to put my "personal biz" on the internet. my feelings and viewpoints are so intertwined so I will break my review into two parts what it means to me and a more analytical review. please feel free to skip the next "personal paragraph" as it does not pertain to mockingbird as a work of literature.

I am a little under half native American. our genetic background is a thing my family does not advertise living where we do in rural north Georgia. we are not obvious in appearance. my parents moved to ball ground Georgia from Atlanta in the 80's to raise their family. the reason I mention this is Maycomb is a lot like my home town. everybody was related and knew everybody for generations. we were the outsiders of town. my classmates about 90% had light hair and eyes, I obviously from my profile picture do not. I later found out it's because they were all related with the exception of maybe 2 or 3 of us. my classmates all talked about hunting, fishing and other cultural things mentioned in the book. my parents and family as a whole did not do those things. they seemed to live in the woods. we had a different appreciation of nature. my parents were also highly educated. I will stop there lest I sound disrespectful of my classmates you get the idea. so around the time I am starting to realize these differences my mom who was the Librarian at the newly build local library. gave me this book to read the first of real import I remember. I never knew why then probably to early, maybe because I was scouts age. maybe I reminded her of scout with my love pact with the girl next door playing every summer day outside with her. and how my brother and sister were just old enough to be to old like Jem. how I was smarter and more perceptive than the average child. I don't know but lightning stuck everything made sense, it all seemed to matchup. I wanted to understand those around me and this book was a window, a outsider obsesses over a culture more than those in it. I picked up the simple moral of the book as a by product, and have lived my life under the golden rule, compassion for all, and open mindedness every since. I always put myself in others shoes much to my own expense. I understand the power of literature because I was giving mockingbird at a young age.

Mockingbird is amazingly readable even to children. you would expect a book with such heady values to be a chore to little ones but it's as readable as treasure island or Tom Sawyer. Scout is one of my favorite narrator of all time. she being a tomboy seems relatable to everyone. she has the inquisitive wonder to appeal to a child while her intelligence is evident which is amusing to adults. it's told in pseudo child like speech. that speaks to the soul you discover simple truths through a child perspective. the effect is remarkable. the part where dill gets sick in the courthouse sums this up. adult life is so complicated but children see everything so plain. you can't live life like a child but you can try to keep some of that. the characters and setting is a real as it gets Atticus is the ultimate role model. Jem is embodiment of a older sibling that you respect but still hate. Aunt Alexandra is also a good character representing societies expectations on children to grow up a unconscious idea embodied by a character and in some cases actual family members. Maycomb seems to me to be a lot like my home town but I believe could be like anywhere giving any stand in group or circumstance. people are all the same everywhere that one of the lesson learned from the book. Tom Robinson dignity seems extraordinary then you realize there is no reason for it to be extraordinary he is just a normal person. that is the second lesson from the book. i think the fact that Tom is black in the south is immaterial he can be any member of a oppressed people anywhere in the world. and the impact is the same! the fact that Mockingbird deals with universal themes is why it's one of the greatest novel of all time. and the fact that it's so personal is why it my favorite of all time!

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4+ of 5 stars for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, published in 1960 and winner of a Pulitzer prize. Almost every teenager is told to read this during high school, or at least they were when I attend about 25 years ago... I thought about doing a normal book review for this one, but ultimately I wouldn't be able to do it justice. Two key things I'd really like to say:

1. I couldn't give this a 5 because there were a few parts that I thought needed some clean-up, could have added additional emotions and might have been an even more stellar jump off the page. But it's a 4.4999999999999 and some days, I want to re-read it to see if I can absolutely push it up to that mighty 5 I've only given out about 15 times... less than 3% of my reads...

2. Forget what time period this was written in or written about. Ignore the color of a person's skin. Don't give any consideration to the parent / child relationship. Avoid focusing on it as a tale of an attorney with a case. This is a book about every single human being. About every decision we make in life. About all that matters when you are alive.

Each of us feels like someone in the book... Atticus Finch, Scout, Boo Radley, Jem, Aunt Alexandra, Calpurnia, Tom Robinson.... I could go on forever. Probably more than just 1 of them. And maybe different ones at different points in our lives. You cannot help but feel your mind moving all over the place in trying to decide where you heart falls in this story.

It's a collection of lessons we all need to learn and be careful to understand to the fullest extent. People don't raise themselves. They are raised by the influences around them. And then they make their own choices from all they've seen and heard.

We all have a choice. We may not know it. But we do. It doesn't mean you like the outcome. But there is always a choice.

The very basics of your character are laid out on the table in this book.

Honor and Respect are earned, not given.

Family is important. But so is trust and an open-mind.

In the beginning, I noted we all see ourselves in some number of these characters. What I really should have said, although that is true, is that we also -- every single one of us -- without a doubt in my mind -- IDENTIFIES with Scout. Everything she's been thru (to varying degrees, excluding the obvious big item that happens/almost happens to her) is something every one of us faces during the course of our life.

Identifying with someone is at our core. And I can think of no better way to read this book than to choose who you are as a person and how you want to identify yourself to the rest of the world.

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Tengo la gran suerte de vivir en el caluroso, pintoresco y quizás olvidado estado de Alabama. Suerte por un lado, porque pude empatizar de una manera muy especial con los personajes, el entorno y la trama de la novela. Pero también, porque he podido ser testigo de las heridas que han dejado los años de discriminación y segregación que ha y sigue recibiendo un grupo de personas en los Estados Unidos. Es por eso, que la novela que terminé entre el trayecto de Louisiana y Alabama, fue muy especial personalmente, y será una experiencia que jamás olvidaré.

Ahora si, la reseña.

To Kill a Mockingbird (en español, Matar un Ruiseñor), nos cuenta la historia de Jean Louise Finch (a.k.a. Scout) una niña de alrededor 7 años que vive en el ficticio pueblo de Maycomb, Alabama. La historia, también contextualizada en los años 30, en plena gran depresión, nos relata las andanzas de esta ocurrente, valiente e inocente niña, que acorde pasan las páginas, va creciendo y experimentando cosas que cambiarán su vida para siempre.

“As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.”

Scout, la narradora de la novela, nos lleva por esta trepidante historia que acorde avanzamos, va cambiando a tintes cada vez más oscuros. Pasando de unas ordinarias aventuras de verano, hacia un suceso que no dejará indiferente a nadie. Todo esto, mezclado con una gran cantidad de atractivos personajes, que le dan a la novela, todos los ingredientes para hacer una de mis mejores experiencias de lo que va del año.

El personaje que bajo mi punto de vista tiene más protagonismo e importancia en la novela es Atticus Finch, el padre de Scout y su hermano Jem. Este atrevido, audaz y apacible abogado es, no solo la única figura a seguir que tienen sus hijos (y yo), si no que es la única persona que fue capaz de tomar las riendas de un caso que era virtualmente imposible de sacar adelante. ¿Podrá un afroamericano, en el sur de los Estados Unidos (años 30), salir libre de una falsa acusación de violación?



Sin embargo, la novela escrita por Harper Lee, va mucho más allá de la resolución de las tramas principales. Ya que el verdadero sentido y objetivo que tuvo la autora norteamericana, fue la reflexión que el lector puede sacar de temas sobre la discriminación, el prejuicio, la juventud, la familia, el racismo, la honestidad, la integridad, el trabajo y muchísimas cosas más, que de una manera u otra, llamará tu atención.

En conclusión, la magnífica historia de Scout, tiene todos los ingredientes para ser una novela que encante a cada persona que se adentre en ella. Con un estilo crudo pero inocente y con decepciones y alegrías en partes iguales, Lee, logrará robar y meterse en los corazones de sus lectores, y quizás hacerlos añicos o lo opuesto. Pero eso, está a elección.