Sharing Thoughts about Books with Others (STBO) discussion

Hello everyone. Has anybody read this book before, or is currently reading it? This is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. You can click on the title on this post so you can read the preview of the book.

I've placed this title here in the Classics / Classic Literature. Feel free to talk about your thoughts or opinions on the book on the comments section below. Most people would have read this in school and would probably be aware of the plot in the book. If not, then for the people who haven't read it yet, if you will have Spoilers just please post SPOILERS then post your message so those still reading can know that there are Spoilers in your message. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts about this Classic Literature, and have a good day and stay safe. Thank you.

I love this book!!!! It's funny, when I first heard about this book was mentioned in a series, then searching for it found out it was a classic. Read it and loved it!!! You get to travel within the setting and timeline, you feel as one more neighbor on the town. Amazing characters and situations that make you reflect. This book made me get inside a child's perspective as well as an adult's perspective.

Maybe I’m coming from a more modern viewpoint, and the fact that Harper lee was tackling racial issues at such an early point should only be seen as a good thing, but one concept that rang true to me throughout reading to kill a mockingbird is that it is a book about race issues where white people are the heroes.

I’m not sure if anybody has seen the musical hairspray but that’s similar in that sense too; for me white people shouldn’t be the hero of a movie/book about fighting racism.

This book was required reading back in high school. This book teaches a lesson about human compassion, about judging others based on the color of their skin or because they are different than we might be, about justice in another time (or injustice), about childhood imagination, about the loss of childhood innocence. What is best about this book, though, is that the heavy themes represented in it are not done so with a heavy hand. Harper Lee was simply telling a story...and the fact that you learn something along the way was simply a byproduct. Granted it may have been her intention all along for you to learn said lesson, but it never comes off that way while reading.

I really tried to read it but I just couldn't finish it. Maybe I'm an eretic, but I just couldn't see what it hides.
Like Sady said, the fact that the topic of the book is racism but the heroes are white.. Made me wonder what is the author's point.
What I like about it though is how every main character accepted another. But, to be honest, it was such a boring experience...