Okay. So first off, trying to keep up with my reading life was pretty easy, I dove into the summer prepared in advance with many books ready to read. I started the hot season with The Adoration of Jenna Fox, which was an outstanding book, and even though at first it didn't 'woo' me, later on it hooked me; overall thought out, smart, and very well written.
One of the most recent book I've finished is To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Like The Adoration of Jenna Fox, the beginning of the book didn't really lure me in. I tried again...and
again...until I finally read past page 3 and began to enjoy the book.Since I don't like big blocks of text or long paragraphs (bad, I know, but I just can't help it) I found myself skimming. So, I forced myself to go back and re-read all of what I had just "read", like I did in Richard Adams' Watership Down.
I found myself really into the book. I can't find anything faulty with it. I didn't drag through it taking notes and almost forcing myself to find a text to self/world/text connection (sorry Ms. Galang). Overall the reading experience that I had while reading To Kill a Mockingbird was quite an enjoyable one.
The book is about a young girl called Scout, and what her life is like while and after her father defends a black man who is accused of rape in a segregated southern town.
The book starts with explaining Scout, Jem, and their father's history. Then, like any other book, you get to step into the character's shoes and really experience their life.
Scout lives in a small southern town in Alabama. Her life is a simple breath; she breathes in, she breaths out, and her day goes on and on and on until night, then it's starts all over again, with the occasional thrill of bothering the town's "odd person out", Boo Radley with her brother and their friend named Dill.
Her father, Atticus, who is a lawyer, soon gets involved in a case involving a men being accused of beating and raping Maya Ewell. Since the town is segregated, and the man being accused of rape is black (Tom Robinson) and the accusers are white (Maya Ewell and her father), and he knew that he had a very slim chance of winning, he still put his all in all in trying to win the case.
The book To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a book about how Scout, her brother, and her father deal with being labeled as "______ lovers" (If you read the book you'd know what I'm talking about). To Kill a Mockingbird is about a young girl and how she figures out to make sense of the world around her, how to tell untrustworthy people from people who you can trust with your life, and her discovery on how cruel a human being can really be.
