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＊<<To Kill a Mockingbird>>__Harper Lee

殺死一隻反舌鳥(無罪的)

(*Movie)

*Kill a mockingbird 是一種罪過

*Mockingbird → 和情節沒什麼直接關係

* 1961 → Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 

*”Boo”→鬼嚇人的聲音/ spooky幽靈般的;有鬼般的

*黑人男性(Tom Robinson)/窮青年(Bob Ewell)/窮人白人女性(Mayella Ewell )

*What is that? What is that for?

* Gregory Peck 主演Atticus Finch → Scout and Jem’s father, a lawyer in Maycomb descended from an old local family./ 槍法很準

*種族的不平等/強暴/世界本來就不公平/人性的不公平/社會邊緣人

*南方歌德小說(Southern Gothic)→以setting, time, place來做判斷

 (勵志)成長小說(Bildungsroman)→class, courage, compassion, and gender

*Every adult should read before they die.

*最後被誤陷的黑人Tom Robinson仍敗訴，而被判刑，但因試圖逃跑，被警長槍殺。

*Rustling 沙沙作響的聲音(onomatopoeia擬聲字)

*Tom Boy 打扮穿著像小男孩的女孩子 →Jean Louise “Scout” Finch

*Four Major Lessons:

1) Put yourself in other people’s shoes.

2) Don’t kill mockingbirds.

3) Keep fighting even if you know you’ll lose. → 人性的尊嚴

4) The world is unfair.

*Important Quotation

→ Maycomb town is nothing to fear but to fear itself.