Public: My New Favorite Book
I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird for English class and wanted to share some of my favorite parts. I'm sure most of you have read it, as it is a classic.
Francis looked at me carefully, concluded that I had been sufficiently subdued, and crooned softly, "Nigger-lover..." This time, I split my knuckle to the bone on his front teeth. My left impaired, I sailed in with my right...
Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop.
When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. "What are you shooting at?" "Miss Maudie's rear end." Atticus turned and saw my generous target bending over her bushes.
"She's gettin' fat," I said.
"I should think so. She eats all the leftover fingers and ears from the hospital."
"Aw, that's a damn story,"I said.
"I beg your pardon?"
Atticus said, "Don't pay any attention to her, Jack. She's trying you out. Cal says she's been cussing fluently for a week, now." Uncle Jack raised his eyebrows and said nothing. I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn't make me go. But at supper that evening when I asked to pass the damn ham, please, Uncle Jack pointed at me. "See me afterwards, young lady," he said.
We could do nothing to please her. If I said as sunnily as I could, "Hey, Mrs. Dubose," I would receive for an answer, "Don't you say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs. Dubose!"
Okay, so I'll admit that I'm a big dweeb. But I'm a dweeb who's in love with this book and Scout, the little girl who tells the story. I was looking at new movies coming out and I want to see the following:
Saving Face - A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Bomb the System - After a young tagger is beaten by the police, the best street art crew in New York wage a graffiti war against the city.
Mind Hunters!!! - Val Kilmer, LL Cool J and Kathryn Morris are with a group of FBI profiler cadets who learn there's a serial killer in their midst.