That’s an awful rendition. There are noparagraphs and manywords are runtogether. I wouldn’t recommend itinthatformat oryou’llgoblind.
It’s not ideal, but it’s the only place I’ve found where you can read it for free, and at least get a sense of whether it’s interesting enough to purchase a better copy. IMO, it is worth it.
There is this place called the public library. I hear they have books for free.
I think the OP hit it on the head, it’s a good but not a great film and you watch it for Gregory Peck’s preformance. Kind of like watching Tombstone just to see Val Kilmer play Holliday.
And so are naps. No need for an alarm clock; they wake you after two hours.
I haven’t read the book but what makes a good book is more than the plot. It’s how it’s written. the ability to paint pictures with words transcends the literal exchange of information. Otherwise, books would read like technical manuals.
Thank you, Andrew Carnegie.
The Library where I worked during my formative years, and met the woman I loved and married last year, is a Carnegie Library.
Good performances all around. The story is basically “feel good”-with the exception of the black guy that Atticus defends, everybody has a happy ending. Was it a fair portrayal of life in the South, pre-WWII? Who knows.
I came in to talk about the book.
It’s a wonderfully well-written story: beautiful, even lyrical. It allowed me to immerse myself into the character. It presented a vision of manhood that as i child I wanted to believe existed and as an adult I aspire to.
I have virtually no opinion about the movie.
The book shows that, while everyone knew the true story of Maryellen Ewell’s “rape,” nobody could do anything about the trial’s outcome. But there were people like Atticus who were willing to try their best to get the truth out.
I didn’t get that impression; the lynch mob surely believed it was rape, did they not?
The lynch mob was acting without thinking as mobs do. I should have said “During the trial, everyone realized the true story…”
Remember, during the lynch mob scene, the judge had Atticus’s back, standing unseen at his window with a shotgun.
I don’t recall the Judge. Perhaps it is time to read it again.
In the book, I’m fairly sure it was the newspaper editor. Is it different in the film?
Actually, a quick Google reveals it was Sheriff Heck Tate with the shotgun. The same man who realized that prosecuting Boo Radley for killing Bob Ewell would be a sin and serve no purpose, and reported that Ewell “fell on his own knife.”
heh.
Perhaps in the movie (which I’ve never seen). In the book it was the newspaper editor/publisher. He lived in rooms over his office, which was adjacent to the jail.
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Indeed.