Posted on 02/19/2016 7:51:13 AM PST by Borges
Yes, some may think so, but consider: We were all a bunch of hormones with legs in HS and we were supposed to read a book about a guy trying to get his hormones satiated! I was like, "Man, I know all about this crap! I don't need Holden Caulfield's pitiful existence to mirror my own!"......................
Like winning the Lottery the first time you play!........................
Please don’t mock my favorite..........................velvet paintings!.......................
I was too bust trying to get laid to empathize with Holden’s situation!..................
Truman Capote wrote all the good parts.
I found TKAM to be trite. Atticus Finch is a cardboard character, and the trial was pure bed wetter fantasy. However, the subplot of Scout and Boo Radkey was beautifully done—and sounds like Truman Capote.
TKAM is now under fire from feminists for ‘victim shaming’ and putting forward the ‘myth of the false rape accusation’.
When Atticus kills the rabid dog.
Which have been disproven over and over again.
Everyone knows it was really Sir Francis Bacon...
While some of To Kill a Mockingbird is very well-written, other parts seem like cheap melodrama or outright propaganda.
The whole inverted myth about blacks generally being the noble victims of crime rather than its perpetrators is fed to us non-stop by the media today. It's a false meme that we can thank TKAM for.
On the other hand, I've always loved the story of Boo Radley. I wish the novel had focused more on the Radleys and less on Atticus and his Noble Black Victim client, but then we'd have a Faulkner novel rather than a Harper Lee novel.
The only thing I liked about that book was when they found the tree with the hole in it and finding the stuff hidden in it.
Read Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” and some of TKAM that has to do with the town, the kids, the ordinary people. Not the phoney crusading lawyer stuff...I am convinced that what is good about TKAM us Capote. Plus, isn’t it odd that she could only write one book?
RIP.
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