A while ago I did a review on The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas. Considering that I really liked the book I looked for other books around the same kind of topic. While searching on google I found a book that I heard quite a lot of people talking about, To Kill A Mockingbird. To be honest when I heard the book title I thought it was about the Hunger Games because it had a bird on the title page. When I looked more deeply into a preview I realized that it was definitely not about the Hunger Games and that it seemed quite interesting so I picked it up and started to read it. Here’s a brief summary and a review on TKAM.
In TKAM by Harper Lee there are a few main characters that we need to introduce first, Scout, Atticus, Jem, and Boo. The story takes place around the 1920s-1930s era in the Southern United States. Scout Finch's story is told through the eyes of her father, Atticus Finch, an attorney who works tirelessly to prove the innocence of a black man wrongfully accused of rape; and Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor who rescues Scout and her brother Jem from being slain. Scout is forced to question her convictions in the novel due to a number of events, the most significant of which is Tom's conviction despite his obvious innocence. Scout confronts her biases when she meets Boo Radley, a mysterious shut-in who Scout initially mistook for a terrifying ghost-like entity.
I feel like this book was very good to say it simply. I usually like quick plot books and this book on the other hand was very slow paced. The first 8 chapters didn’t really have any correlation to the actual book which was pretty weird to me as a reader. But after those few chapters I think the book really started to take off. I felt as if the book was the older version of The Hate U Give and I thought it was very “eye opening”. Not only was it a good detailed book but it also was structured in a way that you could basically feel what Scout (the narrator of the book) was actually feeling and going through the entire time. Even though I couldn’t relate to any of the things happening I learned a lot of things with this book. I strongly recommend you to check this book out or even watch the movie that is about this book and overall I would give it a 4.5/5.
I read this book in 7th grade, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Despite the slower pace, the book was still very interesting, and surprisingly, I did not get bored of it. It was a really eye-opening book that will always remain a classic. I never really made the connection between TKAM and The Hate You Give. Good blog Swapnil!
ReplyDeleteI like how you reviewed another eye-opening book, kind of like what "The Hate U Give" was. I'm very impressed that you managed to finish the book despite the slower pace; I'm the type of person to get bored really easily so I don't know if I could have persisted. I think we are definitely in a time where we have to learn and sympathize with people who go through different experiences from us, and TKAM sounds like it does a great job as a classic to take on various current topics!
ReplyDeleteGreat review Swapnil. I like how you structure this post. Introducing the characters to us while giving background information and context before explaining your thoughts was pretty expert of you. Unfortunately, these slow-paced type of books aren't my style, but I did find your review of the book quite interesting.
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