To Kill a Mockingbird

Read and reviewed: Aug 17, 2021

Chapter 1-2: The story intrigued me from the very first page, as I wanted to know what was the cause of the elbow incident, and who had been part of it. I love how vivid her descriptions of the town are, and how easy it is to visualize each street already. Wow, that teacher has such an inferiority complex and really loves asserting her power over ‘weaker' people than her! Also, I only realized at the end of chapter 3 that the narrator was a girl! So impressive that she learned to read and write mostly on her own!

Final thoughts after finishing the book: I loved it so so much! 5 stars! One of the best reads of the year. I couldn't find anything to change, this book is just excellent. It's interesting how her draft for this book was so different from the final version. (this is the synopsis for the sequel, and a spoiler if you intend to read it blindly): with Scout as an adult coming back to her home town and trying to reconcile with her father who is actually a racist in this version. But to come back to To Kill a Mockingbird, I don't even know what to say! It's always easier for me to write pages and pages for the books I disliked, than for the books I liked. The book had a good moral at the end, that most people are nice, and you need to take the time to get to know them.Somehow, I thought that the character of Dill would be more explored, as he somehow disappeared from the last part of the book, but it still makes sense. It was good to keep the final events enclosed in themselves. Scout, Jem, Atticus and Boo, I am going to remember these characters for a long time. I wonder if there is a slight chance that Jem or Boo killed Bob Ewell...