# To Kill A Mockingbird. Dill. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510 "2001-10-10T04:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/41 "2001-10-12T11:19:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\*I often think it would have been better if Harper Lee had only ever written one book. \*\* Bwahahahahahahahahahhahahah ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/42 "2001-10-12T11:58:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\*Agreed with most of you about the sequels. I often think it would have been better if Harper Lee had only ever written one book. \*\* Damn **Fiver** , how am I going to get the tea out of the keyboard? Oh, and **d12** , you might try reading the book some time - unless you believe that we can channel Harper Lee, you aren’t going to get any more information about Dill than the author chose to put in her novel (strange that, isn’t it?). [sub]OK, I should have suggested that the OP search the net for interviews with Harper Lee in which she expands on her characters, but I’m just not feeling that sadistic tonight.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/43 "2001-10-12T14:38:19Z")
Not to mention the blatant copycatting by other authors trying to jump on the bandwagon: _Alas, Mockingbird One Flew Over the Mockingbird’s Nest The Electric Kool-Aid Mockingbird Test I, Polyglottos/Polyglottos the God_ ---
**Author:** ![nerv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85e7bf/32.png) [@nerv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nerv)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/44 "2001-10-12T15:44:17Z")
Everybody, have you heard? I’m going to kill me a mockingbird And if that mockingbird don’t die I’m gonna bake it in a pie ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/45 "2001-10-12T15:59:58Z")
I’m sorry to continue to ask, but I’d like to know if there really was a sequal to To Kill a Mockingbird, and if so, what were the titles? That was one of the more enjoyable books I read for school, and I think it might be interesting to see them… ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/46 "2001-10-12T16:26:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Netbrian \* > \*\*I’m sorry to continue to ask, but I’d like to know if there really was a sequal to To Kill a Mockingbird, and if so, what were the titles? That was one of the more enjoyable books I read for school, and I think it might be interesting to see them… \*\* uh…yeah, there is…its called…um…um…To Cook a Mockingbird… ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/47 "2001-10-12T16:28:40Z")
Dill…I am your father… - Darth Vader ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/48 "2001-10-12T18:00:56Z")
Why would someone want to eat something as rough as THAT thing? ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/49 "2001-10-12T19:01:12Z")
Didn’t Berkeley Breathed film a sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird” ? Can’t exactly remember the title. I think it was “Mo’ Better Mockingbird.” ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/50 "2001-10-12T19:03:00Z")
Excuse me, but it only takes a few hours to read this book. You are going to spend less time finding out (I don’t remember Dill at all) than trying to sort all the crap people are giving you here. The character was probably changed or left out of the movie. This movie was one of Peck’s better ones. He usually played his characters with such a stick up their butts that it got to be annoying. This role suits that fairly well, and he found a few others where his New Englandness wasn’t simply maddening. For a real hoot, Gregory Peck fans, watch The Boys From Brazil where he and the Baron of Brighton compete to see which can be the biggest ham. Peck simply blows Sir Laurance out of the water. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/51 "2001-10-12T19:07:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Creant \* > uh…yeah, there is…its called…um…um…To Cook a Mockingbird… I’ve seen the movie version … The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Mockingbird. No one was admitted during the chilling Aunt Alexandra’s Thanksgiving scene. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/52 "2001-10-12T19:30:55Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Ellen \* \*\* > [@](#): > > \*I’ve seen the movie version … The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Mockingbird. No one was admitted during the chilling Aunt Alexandra’s Thanksgiving scene. \*\* IIRC, Aunt Alexandra took care of Dill once and for all, using the Hannibal Lechter cookbook. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/53 "2001-10-12T19:50:20Z")
I recall reading the sequel and being shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, when I learned that Boo Radley was head of the local NAMBLA chapter and Dill was his houseboy. I didn’t even know that Robert Duvall was gay. The book was entitled “Boo and Dill: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name,” IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/54 "2001-10-12T21:03:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*I recall reading the sequel and being shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, when I learned that Boo Radley was head of the local NAMBLA chapter and Dill was his houseboy. I didn’t even know that Robert Duvall was gay. > > The book was entitled “Boo and Dill: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name,” IIRC. \*\* Why be shocked? Dill spent most of the first book trying to get Boo to ‘Come Out’. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/55 "2001-10-12T21:07:03Z")
Had to read TKaM _and_ at least two of the sequels in university, in between architectural diagrams, comparative religion tomes, and engineering books. I can still remember the last lines of the second book, with Dill hammering uselessly at the lower door of the tower… “Scout was alive, but taken by the enemy.” I don’t know about that scene with the tortured cat though; it had too many overtones of Room 101 and Winston Smith for me. Who was plagiarising whom, that’s what _I_ want to know. All in all, I haven’t been that disturbed by something since seeing Lili Riefenstahl’s _Trimuph of the Will_. Come to think of it, it was the same year… ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/56 "2001-10-12T21:28:39Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Sunspace_ > Had to read TKaM and at least two of the sequels in university, in between architectural diagrams, comparative religion tomes, and engineering books. > > I can still remember the last lines of the second book, with Dill hammering uselessly at the lower door of the tower… “Scout was alive, but taken by the enemy.” Strange, they made us read them as weel in engineering school. I tell you, though, the 100 pages Lee devoted to the design and construction of the tower is some of the finest engineering writing I’ve ever read. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/57 "2001-10-12T22:21:06Z")
100 _pages_? **Robb** , are you sure they didn’t foist the South African ‘misprint edition’ on you? Our prof specifically warned us about that. Apparently it was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill annotated reprint edition but because of the embargo against South Africa at the time (mid-seventies?) the publisher couldn’t get the latest info from Penguin Books in the UK, and used instead an older draft that was later proven to contain ‘extraneous material’. So later after Mandela was freed, the publisher (no longer Penguin Books South Africa–there was a lawsuit) dumped them on the remainder market. At least that’s how they explained it to _me_… ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/58 "2001-10-13T01:28:17Z")
**KimKatt** : You’re probably thinking of Kill Mo’ Mockingbird: Boo Radley Loose in the Hood. Good luck finding a copy - I hear that Opus is hoarding all of the prints to prevent it from being released to video. ---
**Author:** ![d12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@d12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d12)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/59 "2001-10-13T02:28:39Z")
I’ve created a monster :\ ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510/60 "2001-10-13T02:56:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by d12 \* > \*\*I’ve created a monster :\ \*\* Have you had it graded yet? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird-dill/86510.md?page=4)