The quote posted in The Times does not neccisarily mean Atticus is racist: "the Negros down here are still in their childhood as a people." I think the past few months of modern history prove that.
Discuss.
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Oh yeah, reality... he's a fictional character, he's white, a southerner, and a metaphor for what's right about America, and this is now the age of 0...
Okay, he's now a racist. /s
Doesn’t matter. I pre-ordered the book weeks ago and I’m looking forward to its arrival next week.
I home this next book covers home security better than the last book covered hunting birds.
Aha!!!.it’s based on the life of Robert “Sheets” Byrd..
I didn’t read TKMB until I was an adult. Best written book for style and imagery I have ever read.
I am always amazed by how many people think that TKAM is non-fiction.
TKAM was taken from Lee. It is a fine story with many nuances. It was taken from her and made to be just one thing....a civil rights book.
Her authorship was even questioned. Many believe that Truman Capote wrote it.
I can see where Lee would strike back at those who stole her writing. They didn’t acknowledge her artistry and focused on the civil rights part of the book? OK. now, she has taken that away.
I see it as a masterful move by Lee.
“This is my story. I created it. It is mine to do with as I please.”
The artist defeats the yammering mob.
Black people consider themselves as children and the government is there to act as their mother and father to give them whatever they want.
Fine. He’s a racist who believes in the rule of law and justice regardless of color.
God forbid we read about complex characters.
That damned Scout had something to do with this!
On that page, it says a lot people (liberals) named their boys “Atticus”. I’d love to ask them now “wow! Why’d you name your boy after a guy who attended klan meetings?”
Huck Finn becomes the Grand Wizard
This us the McCarthy era of our time. There is a racist behind every tree. Or so “They” think.
As the victims become more scarce the charges will become more outlandish.
Or asks his daughter: “Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?”...
he denounces the Supreme Court, says he wants his home state “to be left alone to keep house without advice from the N.A.A.C.P.” and describes N.A.A.C.P.-paid lawyers as “standing around like buzzards.”...
she returns home to Maycomb, Ala., for a visit — from New York City, where she has been living — and tries to grapple with her dismaying realization that Atticus and her longtime boyfriend, Henry Clinton, both have abhorrent views on race and segregation...
At times, it also alarmingly suggests that the civil rights movement roiled things up, making people who “used to trust each other” now “watch each other like hawks.”...
The difference is that “Mockingbird” suggested that we should have compassion for outsiders like Boo and Tom Robinson, while “Watchman” asks us to have understanding for a bigot named Atticus.
...I once attended a Democrat party fund raising event... Next...
TKAM will soon be getting the “Gone With the Wind” treatment”
Great comments from all...
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