To Kill a Mockingbird

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think it also just was coinciding with us, you know, studying, like, To Kill a Mockingbird.

That's true.

Yeah.

So...

We were reading To Kill a Mockingbird, and my teacher decided to have us read it out loud, calling on people per chapter.

And there were a couple people in that class.

There's a lot of racist language in To Kill a Mockingbird.

There's a lot of N-words.

And there were some people in there who would just shout it when they got to that part.

I mean, I know there's some people that can do it really well.

I just, To Kill a Mockingbird's in first person and it's solid.

I think at least I'm pretty sure it is.

But I don't know.

Oh my god, that's a personal question.

Her name is Scout Lee, named Scout for Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, and Lee for Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.

And she's cute as the buttons, but I can't play favorites.

I miss my old dog so much, it's tough.

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i feel like i've harped on that book a lot and i'm it's like very beloved so i'm so sorry i know there's some deep themes in that book that i probably didn't catch when i was reading um but it was not for me and that's okay um and then to kill a mockingbird by harper

lee

oh yeah that one yep i think that was my junior year that we read that one and i don't I don't remember reading Animal Farm, but I think we watched it, which is confusing.

So I'm not sure why I keep being like shocked by that.

Yeah.

Are there any of those that you would like to reread in the near future? I would read To Kill a Mockingbird again, and I would be interested in reading The Great Gatsby.

I know that I want to read The Handmaid's Tale relatively soon just because I want to see what my experience would be like now that you guys read it this

And I always appreciated that.

And my mother had a first edition to kill a mockingbird.

And I sent it to Harper Lee and asked her to autograph it.

I think we swapped books is what

we did.

And, um, the cover, the, uh, copy of To Kill a Mockingbird that I have was completely marked up inside with pencils and things circled and themes and everything and I wrote her a letter and said I'm so sorry this is so marked up but it's been in our family and we're so proud of it and when she wrote me back she said I was thrilled to see the copy so marked up because it meant people had been reading it And she was just so genuine and so kind and very gracious to spend some time with my first book.

always appreciated that.

Yeah, that's amazing.

Who are we? Now think about the stories that have shaped civilization.

And I could go on for days, but top of mind, the Iliad, the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, Don Quixote, Les Miserables, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Grapes of Wrath, none of them solved the social problem directly themselves.

None passed fancy legislation or built hospitals for communities or wrote policy.

Yet each changed the way millions of people understood other human beings.