To Kill a Mockingbird: The Screenplay and Related Readings

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This is a copy/paste from my Goodreads review. Please see my other reviews.Found this at a thrift store and now that I've had a chance to revisit the book again before I watched the movie again, I can finally get around to reading this screenplay. All I can say is, if you don't have time to watch the movie, this book will suffice as a handy reference. It's all here. There are no deleted scenes or lines. I dare you to read Atticus' lines without hearing in your head the sexy baritone of Gregory Peck who was born to play this role.The essays and song lyrics at the end are also good reading. The first essay provides a useful history of what ultimately caused the Great Depression and how it affected everyone. The next is the story of a young child growing up in Florida during the depression observing his lawyer father take a stand against an injustice done to his family. Next is a rather long tale of a depression era young boy in Alabama who is bullied by another boy at school. He is encouraged by his family to invite this bully to Thanksgiving dinner where his true colors come out and he ultimately ceases picking on the victim. Another essay is the observation of a young man working in a soda plant who becomes acquainted with a shy, introverted Boo Radley type who turns out to be a talented writer. Finally, a father writes of an incident where he intervened one night while crossing through the park with his daughter to break up a group of white boys beating on one innocent black boy for trespassing on their turf. Jim Crow laws allowed such injustice and the father struggles to explain social injustice to his inquisitive daughter.Overall, this screenplay and the related readings make this book a nice addition to any library.

Love this for the freshman. They put their hearts into it when we used it at school. Everyone had fun.

Please be aware that this hardback contains Horton Foote's screenplay and not Harper Lee's original novel.