Current Events > is to kill a mockingbird overrated?

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I dunno. I am not american and i just finished this book. By no mean it is a bad novel. I enjoyed it thoroughly, the main characters are darlings and it portrayed some time-relevant issues from the eyes and thoughts of innocent children and pulled it off well.

But the book won a pulitzer, claimed by many critics " a must read for every adults in their lifetime" and whatever praise you can come up with, this book probably got it.

It is just not such a groundbreaking masterpiece to me. It's just an honest, skilled writing and intention to tell story and message to the reader.

Maybe relevance, and attachment is the issue. I am young, and not american, and i live in 2018, raised in generally liberal household surrounded by mostly liberal people. The view on the themes like racism, inequalities and other stuff is nothing new for me and stories that brought up more or less the same theme has been done countless time in the time which we are living right now.

Maybe in the time of the publication such issues were quite popular, as it was published during the early dawn of social justice revolution in america, portraying the time that was very relatable for the readers at that time (pretty much most adults who grew up in the same era of the novel's setting)
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Noted Good Opinion Haver Roxane Gay called it racist.
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apolloooo posted...

Maybe relevance, and attachment is the issue. I am young, and not american, and i live in 2018, raised in generally liberal household surrounded by mostly liberal people. The view on the themes like racism, inequalities and other stuff is nothing new for me and stories that brought up more or less the same theme has been done countless time in the time which we are living right now.

here's the thing: a ton of those stories were influenced by, or directly inspired by, the novel you just read.

it's like why a lot of shakespeare seems cliche--because we had four hundred years of imitators afterward.
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Yes it sucked
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Just about all of the high school required reading books are overrated as hell. To Kill a Mockingbird, As I Lay Dying, Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, One Day in the Life of Ivan Whatshisface, Of Human Bondage, Huckleberry Finn, garbage garbage garbage.

Though I did like:

A Separate Peace
Of Mice and Men
The Great Train Robbery
All Quiet of the Western Front
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Atticus is the man.

Until the cash grab with "Go set a watchman" turned him into a raging piece of shit.
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no, it is a classic coming of age novel
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Sonic23004 posted...

Noted Good Opinion Haver Roxane Gay called it racist.

I looked it up and that guy is just an idiotic SJW. And i mean like real SJW, regressive left and not the common insult alt righters throw around at everything they dislike or disagree.

So yeah. A book about how bad racism is, and how prejudice can obscure the truth and harm innocent people is racist because n-word is used too much.

The book is racist because it portrays more or less accurate living condition of african american in the south 1930s.

Uug i am sick of people trying to obscure history. What fucking idiots that are so selfish they think they have the right to rewrite history. As they please. Do you know who else that love rewriting history? Dictators and despots.
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Darkman124 posted...

apolloooo posted...

Maybe relevance, and attachment is the issue. I am young, and not american, and i live in 2018, raised in generally liberal household surrounded by mostly liberal people. The view on the themes like racism, inequalities and other stuff is nothing new for me and stories that brought up more or less the same theme has been done countless time in the time which we are living right now.

here's the thing: a ton of those stories were influenced by, or directly inspired by, the novel you just read.

it's like why a lot of shakespeare seems cliche--because we had four hundred years of imitators afterward.

Good enough. It's really just more or less the changing of times, pre-exposure and 50 years gap of cultural advancement that makes the book just "pretty good" and not "OMFG THIS IS SUCH AN OPUS NOW EVERYONE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DIE OR YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!!!!"
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apolloooo posted...

that guy

hahahahahaha
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apolloooo posted...

Uug i am sick of people trying to obscure history.

To be fair, that person was also mad about how secondary characters weren't flushed out as well as primary characters.
LOL
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

apolloooo posted...

Uug i am sick of people trying to obscure history.

To be fair, that person was also mad about how secondary characters weren't flushed out as well as primary characters.
LOL

I just stopped reading when the article quote "the book uses n-word too much"

Okay, im out.

But i did enjoy the book, only didnt undestand where such huge universal praise come from, but after this topic and reading some Wikipedia pages, i can kinda understand why
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
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Mister_Spyker posted...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

Lol accurate, but i did enjoy the book nonetheless
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apolloooo posted...

But i did enjoy the book, only didnt undestand where such huge universal praise come from

I think you're overstating how highly it's praised.
It's a must read . . . for kids. It's a great book on race, class, the American south, etc but again, it's an introductory book. A "safe" way and dipping their toes into the subject matter and exposure to racial slurs.
There's a reason it's usually required reading in schools but not talked about a lot afterwards.

The movie however . . . well Atticus deserves the spot on AFIs top movie heroes.
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Atticus is real chill dude. Those children werent old enough to understand how awesome their old dad was
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I saw the movie, poor dog got killed in it though.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

The movie however . . . well Atticus deserves the spot on AFIs top movie heroes.

generally he takes the #1 spot right?

gregory peck really made that film.
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