I don't understand why having a guilty black man would have made it more powerful.
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 24/05/2011 05:59:17 AM
It sounds to me like you're taking the book out of its cultural context and bringing it into the 21st century. When Lee wrote the novel, black men were being put in jails all through the South on testimony as baseless as the one given against Tom Robinson (and of course, black innocents are still disproportionately convicted and jailed, but that's another topic).
Saying To Kill a Mockingbird engages in its own form of racism seems like saying early feminist works engage in their own form of sexism, because instead of talking about the equality of sexes they merely talk about the positive qualities of women. I think the time period in which these things were written has to be taken into account.
Saying To Kill a Mockingbird engages in its own form of racism seems like saying early feminist works engage in their own form of sexism, because instead of talking about the equality of sexes they merely talk about the positive qualities of women. I think the time period in which these things were written has to be taken into account.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee
22/05/2011 06:28:11 PM
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I reviewed it last year
22/05/2011 07:45:48 PM
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Huh. I seem to have missed that.
22/05/2011 11:17:11 PM
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As you noted, though, it's a fuller depiction of the South than "racist people."
23/05/2011 12:00:01 AM
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It's a beautiful, incredible book.
22/05/2011 08:21:48 PM
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Also
22/05/2011 11:33:27 PM
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Don't you think that, you know, too many people have read it already?
23/05/2011 09:55:52 PM
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Re: Don't you think that, you know, too many people have read it already?
24/05/2011 12:05:11 AM
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Does that disqualify it?
24/05/2011 01:49:54 PM
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I don't know, if a lot of people want to have this book in a Book Club, I have no objections.
24/05/2011 07:01:38 PM
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Bah. This seems like a lame book. It will never catch on.
23/05/2011 01:31:10 AM
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Um, there's already a rfilm version of this.
23/05/2011 01:11:36 PM
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Suspect he knows that. *NM*
23/05/2011 01:15:46 PM
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Boy, that sarcastic subtext can be so hard to grasp in this virtual madness. *NM*
25/05/2011 06:49:03 AM
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I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like this book. *NM*
23/05/2011 09:37:52 AM
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I've met some, but it was a casualty of middle school English. *NM*
23/05/2011 07:40:27 PM
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One of my nieces didn't like it. I think it was because she was forced to read it for school.
24/05/2011 02:33:23 AM
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Re: One of my nieces didn't like it. I think it was because she was forced to read it for school.
24/05/2011 10:15:45 AM
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Let me ask the politically incorrect questions, since no one else has.
24/05/2011 03:14:50 AM
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I don't understand why having a guilty black man would have made it more powerful.
24/05/2011 05:59:17 AM
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Hmm
24/05/2011 10:22:50 AM
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I could see your argument if Tolkien were writing about feminism.
24/05/2011 02:15:42 PM
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I think that's a fair point.
24/05/2011 07:00:04 PM
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Calpurnia is a stereotype too.
24/05/2011 11:54:26 PM
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The difference, at least in my recollection, is that Calpurnia is well-educated.
25/05/2011 08:09:58 PM
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Re: The difference, at least in my recollection, is that Calpurnia is well-educated.
25/05/2011 10:59:26 PM
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I think there was at least once incident showing a racist black person
24/05/2011 07:33:09 PM
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I think it was written to accomplish a goal and it did that very well
25/05/2011 04:08:17 PM
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Given your introductory portion
11/06/2011 01:28:40 AM
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I have read both
11/06/2011 11:35:11 AM
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All of Twain's stuff is great
13/06/2011 02:27:55 AM
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Re: All of Twain's stuff is great
13/06/2011 08:17:05 AM
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And some poets - Tennyson and Yeats come to mind. *NM*
13/06/2011 10:11:31 AM
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