Tuesday, September 14, 2004

The end (of the novel we're reading)

We just finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird in class, and, boy, was it something. This is the third or fourth time I've taught this book, and I haven't gotten bored. It's so rich on so many levels.
I like the ending. You know right from the start of the book that the end is going to be about how Jem gets his arm broken, and it is. I don't feel like I need to know anymore about the charaters after Scout stands on the Porch and looks at the world from Boo Radley's perspective. My only regret is that Harper Lee never wrote another book. But I don't want a sequel to this one. I know what happens to Scout and Jem: they grow up to be right thinking citizens.

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