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By Esther Lombardi, About.com Guide to Classic Literature since 2000

To Kill a Mockingbird

Thursday July 5, 2007
To Kill a MockingbirdWhy would you kill a mockingbird?

Harper Lee is famous for her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (she also received the Pulitzer Prize). In this famous work of fiction, Harper Lee wrote: "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Here are more quotes , from To Kill a Mockingbird. Also, take a look at questions, a review, and related books.

What do you think about the novel? When you first read it, what struck you about the book?

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July 8, 2007 at 10:35 am
(1) cookies180 says:

That line from her book certainly holds true about the human condition, doesn’t it? This is such a “me, me, me” society, it is pitiful.

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