Thursday, January 24, 2013

A Horrible Piece of Writing

I know I may get a lot of backlash writing what I'm about too but oh well. Each VCE class set us homework and the Literature homework was to read the world-known best-seller written by Harper Lee. It had sold over 30 million copies and had won numerous awards such as the Pulitzer Prize Winner. It was given comments such as "Someone rare has written this very fine novel".  That's right, I'm talking about the "piece of art" To Kill A Mocking Bird. Originally published in 1960, the book is still a massive book in literature.

However, all the reviews and remarks have been mostly given by adults and I have found that many teens including myself find this book absolutely horrible. I found the piece torture to read. I have found the characters hard to like and also the storyline just annoying. It seems that every different chapter was a different story. Harper should have just written short stories with this kind of style. Also, it takes forever to get into the major storyline....heaps of the minor ones were just unnecessary with irrelevant detail. At the current time I am only one-third through yet I actually had a dream about setting it on fire.

I seriously can not understand how this has been proclaimed one of the best novels ever written. Hopefully the next few chapters change my mind because at the moment, with this kind of ranking, there is no way I can successfully write essays on it for assessments.

Sorry if this offends anyone but I'm entitled to my opinion.

Dylan
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  1. Sue BursztynskiJanuary 25, 2013 at 9:14 PM

    Dylan, I'm one of those adults who think it's a wonderful book. It's not just about the trial, but about growing up, and I read one of my favourite scenes on YouTube for Banned Books Week a couple of years ago, the one where Scout is starting school. Can I make a couple of suggestions? 1. Chat about it with Ryan, who does like it. 2. Get the film out of the video library and watch that first. If you aren't bawling like a baby by the end of it, I will be very surprised. Let me know if you can't get it - I have a spare copy I bought recently for $3.95 and can let you have it if you drop in at West campus.

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