My favorite quote from this book is " 'I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after the birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' That was the only time i ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and i asked Miss Maudie about it. 'Your Father's right' she said 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'" (chapter 10, Page 119). I think that it's cool to think about how it's a sin to kill something that does no harm to us. It makes me think about who the mockingbird is in this book.
My favorite character was Scout because she showed that girls do things that we don't want to do to make people happy and that everyone always tries to be brave, even if we feel like we can't be brave. She was told to stand up for someone and gets in trouble for it, which i feel happens more often now a days. She wear a dress to school because she had to when she felt uncomfortable in it. I feel like women, even as a young girls, we do things to make other people happy and we try to be sturdy all the time.
I would rate this a 10 out of 10 because the story line is very realistic about what was going on in the 1960's and that we don't have to like or dislike someone based on the color of their skin. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes classic novels and is into the to older days types of books.
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