Comments on: To Kill A Mockingbird author makes rare appearance

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:04:25 +0000

I came across that news story completely by accident, searching the keyword “reclusive”. I’m glad you all enjoyed it.

I don’t remember when I read To Kill a Mockingbird. Junior high school maybe. I saw the movie a few times on TV first.

The rabid dog incident stood out for me in the movie, because my mom told us a story about her dad killing one during the same era. What a horror that disease was before vaccines. I understand a modern-day cardiologist who’s studied Edgar Allan Poe’s death thinks he died of rabies.

I didn’t like the movie as much as the book. For some reason the role of racism was murky for me in the movie, but made clear in the writing, and I felt that I finally “got” the story. Maybe I was too young to get the movie, earlier, and I was a pretty naive kid.

Time for a reread perhaps. Surely our little county library branch has that one. (I long to move near a college again, like Reenie did, so I have a good library available. This one just doesn’t cut it—or my reading tastes are too varied and weird for this little town.)

By: Reenie

Reenie — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:36:25 +0000

I was saving a comment until I attended the event Sewanee. It’s late and I’m tired, but dear friend that you are, you have already read my post. xoxo

By: violetismycolor

violetismycolor — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:35:16 +0000

How very cool! That book is one of my all-time faves. It must have been very exciting for those present.

By: cassie-b

cassie-b — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:06:52 +0000

That’s really exciting. I hope it was a very good performance.

Cas

By: Eric Mayer

Eric Mayer — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:17:35 +0000

Thanks for the link. Amazing. I passed the story on to Mary, a big Harper Lee fan.