Sunday, May 4, 2014

What type of literature would you consider the book "To Kill A Mockingbird?"I'm just doing this for a bookreport, and I think it's...

The first answer is what you want, but I always like to add that Harper Lee calls it a love story.  My students always call me crazy when I agree with her.  It is a novel about all kinds of love: for a father between his children, for a neighbor (Boo) for whom he considers "his children," and for the decent people in Maycomb county for their own people--whether black or white.  It truly is a love story.

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