I see your point, but I think you are falling into the trap of the people who want feminist characters in Tolkien. It is like saying that any book that does not contain strong tractordriving women is contra-revolutionary and anti-feminist.
The book is about a miscarriage of justice, and it is narrated through the point of view of a white, female child in the South. It is not terribly surprising that this child is not in contact with as wide a selection of black society as she is with white: her access to it it only through Calpurnia's church and her father. Introducing a second court case would have made the thing messy, and confused the issue, which is the miscarriage of justice based in racism; not racism as a whole.
The book is about a miscarriage of justice, and it is narrated through the point of view of a white, female child in the South. It is not terribly surprising that this child is not in contact with as wide a selection of black society as she is with white: her access to it it only through Calpurnia's church and her father. Introducing a second court case would have made the thing messy, and confused the issue, which is the miscarriage of justice based in racism; not racism as a whole.
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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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