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What kind of work is To Kill a Mockingbird and what kind of people are suitable for reading it?
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; Translator: Gao Hongmei

I overheard the book twice before I decided to read it. The first time was in the book, until the end of loneliness. The first time a man saw a woman he liked was at a flea market, and finally he got up the courage to strike up a conversation and asked her what she was reading. Favorite woman answers "To Kill a Mockingbird". Looking back now, her situation was a little similar to the topic at that time. The second time I chatted with a friend, and he recommended this book to me. I was attracted by the title of the book again. What is a robin? What's wrong with it? It must be killed.

It is said that the title of the book is the essence of the whole novel. I naively thought it was a story about birds, but I just used the kindness of robins as an innuendo: "Robins sing for us and don't do bad things." They don't eat flowers, fruits and vegetables in other people's gardens, and don't be me in the corn barn. They just sing for us heartily. "

A main thread of this story is that Father Addicks was assigned to represent a black Tom in the lawsuit. Meckham, the town where the hero Scoot lives, is located in the southern United States. It is a small town where "once you have a drop of black blood in your veins, you are completely black". Robins are harmless. Black Tom is actually like this robin. Just because he was black, he fell into the abyss of meaningless.

This is an impossible lawsuit to win. In the court of Meckham, "when a white man goes to court with a black man, the white man always wins." Attucks believes in his belief: "You knew you would lose before you started, but you have to do it anyway and stick to it." . You rarely win, but sometimes. "

In To Kill a Mockingbird, his father Addicks told Cool Brother that he should be good at independent thinking and have a good starting point and courage to do things when he grows up. Don't hurt people as harmless as robins, no matter what class; Don't try just because one thing remains the same, because you may not succeed if you do it, and you may not succeed if you don't do it.