A Review By Alex Monnington
When I first started to read this book I got a lot of in depth questions from my mum’s generation, it seems everyone over the age of 35 read this book at school and now go misty eyed with nostalgia at the mention of it. Anyway I was slightly put off in the 1st few chapters by the writing style; it was just a bit too American for me. This however soon changed as I got more and more obsessed with the story. I know it’s a cliché but I could not put the book down. I woke up at 6 in the morning to read it before school. I would class it as the best American book that I have read so far
The story is set in during the time of the great depression in a small town in Alabama, the main character is Scout Finch (which it took me half the book to realise was a girl) and the plot follows their growing obsession with the mysterious Boo Radley and their attempts to learn more about him. At the same time as this her Father Atticus Finch, a lawyer, is appointed by the court to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young white woman. The story brilliantly portrays the open racism during the early 1930s and is overall a fantastic book. A great classic.
