To Mock A Killing Bird
By DONALD DeMARCO I was chatting with a high school English teacher recently and asked what she was using at the moment in her classroom. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” she answered, “and the students love it.” Harper Lee’s 1960 novel has been immensely successful. It won a Pulitzer Prize for its author and the film version won three Academy Awards, including best actor for Gregory Peck. In 2005 the British Institute included it in its list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. Atticus Finch, the protagonist, played by Peck, is widely considered as the most convincing cinematic image of racial heroism. Perhaps, I suggested, the novel is even better suited for a class in…Continue Reading