corner view :: a good read
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee -- without a doubt a very good read and one of my absolute favorites. Some quotes:
"First
of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get
along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a
person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb
into his skin and walk around in it." -Atticus
"They're
certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for
their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other
folks I've got to live with myself. The
one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
-Atticus
"I
wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that
courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked
before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
-Atticus
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." -Scout
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A very good book indeed!
ReplyDeleteit's one of my favorite books too. one of the boys had it on his reading list for middle school exams, and we discovered that mockingbird is translated into italian as crow or some other bird that makes no sense at all in the context!
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