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Rereading To kill a Mockingbird because my crush said I needed to. I hated it when I read it for school, apparently it's one of her favorite books.

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Anonymous 7w

I actually love re reading books I was forced to read in high school because 1. No one is forcing me to and there’s no grade dependent on reading it 2.reading books through the eyes of a teenager vs through the eyes of an adult are VERY different 3.some books are classics for a reason (sometimes even the classics still suck tho)

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Anonymous 8w

It’s like, actually peak though.

Anonymous 8w

I really love that book, but with the understanding that it is a narrative of black experience written from a white perspective. It’s best paired with books on the same topic written from black perspectives. I think that it is and will continue to be an important literary text, but it needs to be supplementary, not primary for learning about the Jim Crow era.

Anonymous 8w

Bro lock in

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Anonymous 8w

To kill a mockingbird is so mid, I respect the realism/accuracy of the writing but imo there’s no point reading fiction that just describes an ordinary scenario and adds nothing to it. Luckily it isn’t too long, still longer than several really good classics though iirc.

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Anonymous

#1 8w

Lock in on what? If you mean the book, I've read 1/4th of it in the past 26 hours... and most of that was sleeping and working. I'll be done before my next shift

Anonymous

#2 8w

I'm enjoying it more this time... just got to the part where Scout is in 2nd grade and found out Atticus is defending a black guy and the kids are picking on her for it

Anonymous

#3 8w

Yeah, I had a problem with how they portrayed Atticus as some kind of hero to the kids when he's still racist, that's why I originally hated it. I've seen and read a lot about Jim Crow though...

Anonymous

OP 8w

I agree, as much as I think that Atticus was trying to make the right choices, he was still white within a system oppressive to Black peoples and didn’t recognise some of his implicit racism.

Anonymous

#3 8w

He didn't even want to represent the black guy... he said the only reason he did it is because he could never hold his head high again. He would lose all authority and self respect for abandoning a client, even if he believed he would lose.

Anonymous

OP 8w

I dont know I just be saying lock in

Anonymous

OP 8w

I heard Go Set a Watchman, which wasn’t published in the author’s lifetime, takes a more mature perspective of Atticus’s racism. I haven’t read it but I think it’s abt an adult Scout realizing he isn’t as much of a hero as she thought as a child? But it was written first

Anonymous

#6 8w

Interesting, I heard there was a book 2, but I wasn't sure what it would cover

Anonymous

#5 7w

What I found compelling about the story was that it was told through the eyes of a child learning abt the world and the institution of racism at the same time. It compares the sympathy white ppl had for Holocaust victims to the lack of sympathy for black people that lived right across the railroad tracks to point out hypocrisy through a non-judgmental perspective. The book encourages people to look beyond the surface of what they’re taught

Anonymous

OP 7w

SPOILER WARNING ⚠️: Atticus as a hero is reflective of scout’s perspective of him as her only parent and protector. The end transfers scouts hero to Jem and boo. Both of which are more innocent characters. Boo as a hero calls into question societal expectations and the complex nature of his actions call into question what heroism even is

Anonymous

OP 7w

yeah book 2 was controversial bc it upended a lot of people’s fantasies about Atticus as a white savior, but it was important to Harper Lee that it be a more mature view on his role