BOOK : TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD
AUTHOR : HAPER LEE
“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. More than half a century has passed since the author’s novel was published in 1960. Still today ‘TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD’, continues to amaze its readers and captivate them through the simple, heart touching words written on every page of the novel. The author has been so very original with the weaving of the words in the novel that it is beyond any comparisons. This novel was written with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest of most authentic humour. Clearly, Scout Finch is no ordinary five-year-old girl—and not only because she amuses herself by reading the financial columns of the Mobile Register, but because her nine-year-old brother Jem allows her to tag along when he and Dill Harris try to make Boo Radley come out. Boo Radley is the son who has not shown his face outside of his creaky, weird house in 30 years, he has got his own – ‘shy ways’ but because of the demand of the children the relatives go around spinning a story where he is kept chained to bed and mostly told of something very unknown and dark which does raise the curiosity of the children. Scout and her brother lives in Maycomb, Albama- where every family has astreak of their own. The Finch family streak is a good deal more serious —it is an overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend a Negro who is charged with raping a white woman. The rape trial, Jem's helling, and even Boo Radley are deeply invo*lved in the irregular and very effective education of Scout Finch. Harper Lee at the age of 34, had woven such a spell with her words and the novel stands as an outstanding and astonishing work of her. Even after half a century later this novel should be in the ‘first reads’ list of books. Atpoure welcomes and cherishes the experience of all those who have travelled their journey through the pages of the novel and to those who have not read it yet- YOU MUST!
Wonderfully depicted the theme of the novel....grows curiosity amongst them who have still kept it unread..
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