Anyone read To Kill A Mockingbird?

[iamnoob]

I have a stupid seminar on it and I need examples of injustice that were directed to Bob Ewell. Too hard for my brain.

[Gerinych]

SparkNotes?
Never read the book.

[mrbrownstone1990]

I read it when I was 14, Im now 18. All I can tell you is that he doesnt actually kill the mockingbird and that the film rocked

[Kermit4Prez]

I'd suggest you watch this to get a brief synopsis of it:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mockingbird

[DreamOnMan92]

My teacher made the experience of reading it a crappy one. He made us skip chapters.

[iamnoob]

I read it when I was 14, Im now 18. All I can tell you is that he doesnt actually kill the mockingbird and that the film rocked

Well no crap :P

Ill try SparkNotes, but I'm guessing nothing will be there.

Anyone RECENTLY read the book?

[MarvinPA]

I read it when I was 14, Im now 18. All I can tell you is that he doesnt actually kill the mockingbird and that the film rocked

I have a feeling you read it in school. For a degree? (Wait do they have GCSE in Ireland?)

[mrbrownstone1990]

Yes,But its called the Junior Certificate and the A levels (??) are the Leaving Certificate

[aander91]

Just read it...it's fairly good, especially for a school book.

[iamnoob]

Just read it...it's fairly good, especially for a school book.

Agreed. For a school book.

So ander, know of any examples?

[yoyokid2008]

I read like 1/4th of that. =P

[R4L]

Samples directed to Bob Ewell? You mean Tom Robinson? He was the one who was falsely accused...

[iamnoob]

Bob Ewell. Not wrongly accused, I'm talking about injustice. How it is not fair to Bob Ewell. Like fore example:

Scout feels injustice because Aunt Alexandra is almost trying to force her to be more feminine.

That's not fair to Scout because she doesn't want to be more feminine, she wants to be like Jem.

[therhino]

I had to read it a while back and liked it.

[Caystony3]

Here goes nothing...

Despite that he's pretty much the book's bad guy, circumstances indeed force him this way. The injustices at him are innumerable; you could spend your whole seminar on either his ignorance and his lack of intellect which Lee handwaves as incest, which is why the Ewells live in the middle of a scrap heap, his crappy job which leads to daily attempts to escape by drunkeness, which explains why Mayella and her siblings are constantly lonely, or most of all, his preestablished racial intolerance since the guy has to compete for the menial labor jobs with slavery, which sealed Tom Robinson's fate in the first place by him falsifying Mayella's "rape" and his being curmudgeonly to everyone especially Atticus. And of course, everything Sparknotes says about him.

Damn International Baccalaureate...