I respectfully disagree. TKAMB is a badly-written book. It makes cardboard villains of white hills people (redneck white trash) and a splendid hero of the white lawyer from the town’s upper class, and all black people are kind and amiable victims. The prose is awful. The reason it is a perennial best seller is because it is required reading in college and high school classes.
So that’s my rant for the day. I am only allowed one a day and I decided to blow it on To Kill A Mockingbird.
Need a copy of your rules on who to make heroes and who to make villains.
It makes cardboard villains of white hills people (redneck white trash).....
Agreed. A point of view which many persons simply have not read. Harper Lee, the author, certainly had in mind the existing left wing views of that era. Her portrayal of one of unpleasant whites in the book, hinted at incest amongst his kind. No one - not even the haters of southern poor white people could have hit any harder.
This against her own culture.
Agree with you. The book pushes the idea that only the liberal white man can protect black people.
Love it how Harper Lee sets Atticus’ bona fides as a “real man” by being the only marksman good enough to put down the rabid dog. It’s like Pajama Boy showing off his mad kung fu skills.
“The reason it is a perennial best seller is because it is required reading in college and high school classes.”
Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur both deplored Charles Dickens. Gives me the nerve to say that Hemmingway sucks.