TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

About a month ago we were presented to an assignment in English class to read a book. Our teacher, Ann, had found three different books we could choose from, and “To kill a mockingbird” is the one I chose to read. The author’s name is Harper Lee and it was published in 1960. To kill a mockingbird is based on Lee’s own experiences growing up in Alabama in the town of Monroeville. She has with a loose knot based some of the characters on people from her neighborhood and family from her childhood. One of the issues we can see in the book is racism, which Harper Lee experienced a lot of herself. “To kill a mockingbird” have had a lot of positive feedback and is by many called a classic. It has also won the Pulitzer Prize which is considered as a very prestigious prize to win.

We see the perspective in the book through a ten year old little girl called Scout. She lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father. Scout and her brother one summer become friends with a boy called Dill during his visit at his aunt. The three of them are very interested in their neighbor Boo Radley, which is a man very few in Maycomb (the town they live in) talk about him, and people barely never see him. Radley seems like a man the children are very terrified by, but also very fascinated by.

I’ve actually never heard about the book before it was presented to me in the class, and therefore I haven’t been really interested in it. Probably I’ve been very slow getting started on the book, but when I first have got the time to read it I’ve become very fascinated. I’m looking forward continue reading it!

- Rikke