Book Review:
Edited by Ariana C, Kayla K, DJ R, Trayveon T, and Steve P.
Overall as a group, we rate To Kill A Mockingbird an 8.5 out of 10 mockingbirds .We would recommend this book to somebody who wants a suspenseful, thought-provoking, and vocabulary filled read. We think it was a great decision by the author to write the book in the perspective of a 7 year old girl, Scout Finch. This may have made the book easier to read and understand.The symbolism in this book was amazing, and at certain points it was very shocking and left us with our mouths wide open and brains twirling. It also gave some great information about the 1930's time era and gave us a better understanding about how different things were back then, compared to now. This book was very real and straight forward about racism in the 1930's and how different types of people were treated. The book To Kill A Mockingbird is narrated by a 7 year old girl, Scout Finch. It is also based in the 1930’s, and it mainly shows how there was a lot of racism back then. It all leads up to how a little boy Jem Finch,Scouts brother breaks his arm.Scouts father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer who helps a black male named Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white female. Scout went through many obstacles throughout the book. As the book went on she started understanding more and more about what her town was really like. There is quite a bit of racism in this book. It gives a better understanding of the time period. Many people didn't have rights back then. The book states many tough times and how it was resolved. Although the book was very well written, it seemed like it kept stating event after event. And there was language and content which may not be suitable for younger immature readers. Even for 8th graders, some words were hard to pronounce in the beginning pages of the book. We believe that this book is a good choice for readers in between 8th and 9th grade because of content and maturity level as well as vocabulary comprehension. It was also very hard to keep track of every event in this book for book club discussions because we’d get lost in all of the details. The flashbacks in this book, in our opinion, were the worst parts. They interrupted very suddenly and caused us to lose track of our thoughts about what was currently happening, especially during something important. To Kill A Mockingbird is filled with many eye opening details as well as symbolism and figurative language. Examples of symbolism in the book are; The Snowman, the Mad Dog, and the Geraniums. The whole book is young Scout and the follow up book, which the author actually wrote first, called To Set A Watchman, is in the view of 30 year old Scout. To Kill A Mockingbird was also made into a black and white movie years later. The movie and the book are quite similar, although the movie missed some vital parts. Comparatively, the book includes more details and allows the reader to process their own image in their head of what’s going on. And the movie shows the images the author had in their mind while writing. The movie also helps bring out the symbolism that may be difficult to understand while reading the book. In conclusion,the book was very detailed and even teaches us about the 1930,s. There was so many parts that were so entertaining that we wanted to keep on reading. It was filled was so many events, some bring but some very intense. The symbolism and foreshadowing even the figurative language, put this book together and made it an amazing piece. How the book all added up to Jem breaking his arm, was an amazing idea. It shows how if certain things didn't happen he might of never broken his arm. At the end we all understood why he ended up breaking his arm, the whole point that we were trying t figure out.Overall, we rate this book an 8.5 out of 10 mockingbirds. |