'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'
'I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill
Jem and I stopped in our tracks.
'Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.'
The book "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is one of the best books in literature that was ever written or ever will be written. It is such an amazingly told tail of life in a particular little town in Alabama by the name of Maycomb, set in the 1930's through the eyes of a young child.
I can't place my finger on what makes it so appealing to me and to so many people through out the decades since it was first created.
Harper Lee somehow touched on something through the way she wrote her book that very few authors have managed to do, and I can not, in few words describe what it is that she has done to make her book, accidentally become a true classic.
It is one of the very few books that I have become passionate about in such a way.
I have been rereading it again for the umpteenth time and I am captivated and almost brought to tears (in some parts) by the story that Harper Lee has managed to tell in such a simple, easy to digest way that it makes you want to read it again and again.
As for the movie, I just love it simply because I love the book. It didn't do the book justice as it could have but the roll of Atticus Finch played superbly by Gregory Peck could not be replaced by a better cast. I can not imagine the roll of the father being played by anyone better. I suppose the well done job that Gregory Peck did as the part of Atticus caused the audience to embrace the film more than they would have, had the character been played by another.
What I also loved about the movie was that they wrote the script almost identically to the book. For instance, in the courtroom scenes what Atticus says when defending Tom Robinson is almost to the T what Harper Lee has written in her book. This probably has something to do with the fact that no script writer could have written it a second time much better than what Harper Lee had already done in her book. I like that.
I am so grateful that my father instilled in me a great love for this type of wonderful literature at an early age. And I will forever remember the time he brought this book home to sit and read to us all in the flickering fire light. He would read for hours and hours becoming so wrapped up in the story himself that when we would reach the end of a chapter we would always beg him to continue and he would reluctantly give in without much pleading along with a twinkle in his eye as he began the next chapter. At times we would not get to bed until a time that was unhealthy for little children of our age. Night after night unfailingly, always making the time for us, he continued to read, unfolding the great story until the last chapter had been read and we all sat their in a trance, in the surreal silence not wanting to break the spell the author had cast over us in her ending words.
Then the questions came slowly, innocent questions that only a child would ask in their own simple knowledge of the way the world should simply work, act and think like. Our Father answered them all and expounded in his understanding and wisdom in a gentile, fatherly like manner.
Then it was time for bed. Yet even under cozy covers pulled up to our chins, our little brains did not stop churning with the events that took place in a small town of Maycomb county to a little girl by the name of Scout and young boy by the name of Jem and their playmate Dill and the world as was seen through their eyes.
Any how, after looking up some clips on youtube, I was compelled to vent my great admiration and passion of this book and its subject and author in writing to all you. I hope you bear with me okay.
I say to all those who have not yet read or if you have not yet heard of this great story to go BUY it and READ it. You will not be disappointed.
If I continue I believe I shall spoil it for those of you who have not read it so I shall stop. Now, off you go to buy and read this great classic at my command. :)
Jem and I stopped in our tracks.
'Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.'
The book "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is one of the best books in literature that was ever written or ever will be written. It is such an amazingly told tail of life in a particular little town in Alabama by the name of Maycomb, set in the 1930's through the eyes of a young child.
I can't place my finger on what makes it so appealing to me and to so many people through out the decades since it was first created.
Harper Lee somehow touched on something through the way she wrote her book that very few authors have managed to do, and I can not, in few words describe what it is that she has done to make her book, accidentally become a true classic.
It is one of the very few books that I have become passionate about in such a way.
I have been rereading it again for the umpteenth time and I am captivated and almost brought to tears (in some parts) by the story that Harper Lee has managed to tell in such a simple, easy to digest way that it makes you want to read it again and again.
As for the movie, I just love it simply because I love the book. It didn't do the book justice as it could have but the roll of Atticus Finch played superbly by Gregory Peck could not be replaced by a better cast. I can not imagine the roll of the father being played by anyone better. I suppose the well done job that Gregory Peck did as the part of Atticus caused the audience to embrace the film more than they would have, had the character been played by another.
What I also loved about the movie was that they wrote the script almost identically to the book. For instance, in the courtroom scenes what Atticus says when defending Tom Robinson is almost to the T what Harper Lee has written in her book. This probably has something to do with the fact that no script writer could have written it a second time much better than what Harper Lee had already done in her book. I like that.
I am so grateful that my father instilled in me a great love for this type of wonderful literature at an early age. And I will forever remember the time he brought this book home to sit and read to us all in the flickering fire light. He would read for hours and hours becoming so wrapped up in the story himself that when we would reach the end of a chapter we would always beg him to continue and he would reluctantly give in without much pleading along with a twinkle in his eye as he began the next chapter. At times we would not get to bed until a time that was unhealthy for little children of our age. Night after night unfailingly, always making the time for us, he continued to read, unfolding the great story until the last chapter had been read and we all sat their in a trance, in the surreal silence not wanting to break the spell the author had cast over us in her ending words.
Then the questions came slowly, innocent questions that only a child would ask in their own simple knowledge of the way the world should simply work, act and think like. Our Father answered them all and expounded in his understanding and wisdom in a gentile, fatherly like manner.
Then it was time for bed. Yet even under cozy covers pulled up to our chins, our little brains did not stop churning with the events that took place in a small town of Maycomb county to a little girl by the name of Scout and young boy by the name of Jem and their playmate Dill and the world as was seen through their eyes.
Any how, after looking up some clips on youtube, I was compelled to vent my great admiration and passion of this book and its subject and author in writing to all you. I hope you bear with me okay.
I say to all those who have not yet read or if you have not yet heard of this great story to go BUY it and READ it. You will not be disappointed.
If I continue I believe I shall spoil it for those of you who have not read it so I shall stop. Now, off you go to buy and read this great classic at my command. :)