To Kill a Mockingbird
In this article, Karlee Cornell talks about the famous book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and her opinion about the opening chapters of the graphic novel version.
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To Kill a MockingBird Book Review
To Kill a MockingBird Book Review
By Karlee Cornell
By Karlee Cornell
Content Warning: Slurs are present within the book, but not in this article.
Content Warning: Slurs are present within the book, but not in this article.
Spoiler Warning: Spoilers are given in this article, but only for the first five chapters.
Spoiler Warning: Spoilers are given in this article, but only for the first five chapters.
To Kill A Mockingbird, a story similar to Harper Lee’s life, is cheaply available at Barnes And Noble, Text-Box, and many more stores. It is also taught in the junior curriculum at GPHS. This story is about a tomboy named Scout, her brother named Jem, and a boy named Dill, who became a friend of the two by creepily staring at them and sliding under a fence. Dill was ‘’supposed to stay’’ in Alabama for the summer but was still there when it snowed, as shown in the graphic novel version of the text. These three kids all go on horrific, hilarious, and romantic adventures surrounding one of the main settings, the Radley house, and readers meet the individuals stopping the kids along the way. Enjoy trying to not get frustrated with weird situations.
Chapter One
Chapter One
Chapter one is where we meet Atticus and his daughter Scout. Atticus is a very wise and calm man. He has a lot of advice for Scout when Scout is feeling down. The only thing that throws me off in the graphic novel version is the fact that Atticus is only outside in the same two spots at the beginning of every chapter. Does this adult not even sit down and drink coffee for 5-10 minutes? Alberta suggests you should. Atticus seriously looks like he is sleep-deprived every day.
It seems that Atticus never even met the teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher. Miss Fisher did not even teach on the first day. Sure, Scout was harsh around other kids, but it was her first day of school. Scout's brother makes fun of Miss Caroline, too.
Chapter Two
Chapter Two
Jem’s point of view at school is shared. Jem does not want Scout to ruin the new male's cool shiny sparkle when both of them don't even know that the whole entire town has been talking badly about them before they could even introduce themselves at school. Scout gets yelled at by a teacher, but Jem is fine? Every rule in this book involving education is extremely archaic. *Unsure Elevator music plays for 5 minutes.*
I find it funny that, whenever Jem and Scout are in the same room together with an adult, nothing theoretically makes sense. In the graphic novel version, there is still no introduction to any other student by Chapter 2. The teacher is just randomly forcing everyone to listen to a cheesy story about dogs and cats. Fred Fordham, who was in charge of the graphic novel, cuts a few needed details out, just to make the side characters a bunch of control freaks.
Chapter Three
Chapter Three
Three pages later, we meet this random blond guy that introduces himself as Walter. Walter does not even sit down. He just stands by the door, wide-eyed, and not even aware his mouth is hanging open. The teacher just responds to this whole situation with, um, lunch? Walter can't afford lunch. This makes Scout mad at the teacher because Walter does not have a lunch and cannot pay for one. She later beats him up. That's a life issue.
If you already guessed what happened, Scout knocks Walter over outside, and is about to break every bone in the innocent boy's body-- until Jem stops Scout. This somehow gets Scout to calm down and she is perfectly fine for a little while-- but I thought Jem was going to stay away from Scout during school? When does Scout listen? What can possibly happen with Scout and Jem now?
Trespassing is apparently legal in Alabama if there is kids looking for a mysteryPhoto Credit: Psychotherapy Networker
Chapter Four
Chapter Four
Jem and Scout continue to snoop around the neighborhood. Scout is more curious than Jem is about the Radley house, when Jem is about to doubt everything and leave. Scout grabs Jem's attention by spotting two dolls that look exactly like them in the tree. They both examine the dolls one more time as they leave. What they don't know is that the "ghost", Boo Radley, put them there and his brother Nathan stopped him by covering the hole up with cement. A perfectly fine tree with cement? What? Sure, it's a very old broken house-- but the trees?
The brother, Nathan Radley, definitely seems like he secretly knows how to communicate with Boo, and maybe, just maybe, Nathan could be a murderer. I was convinced in the graphic novel, but the film does not support this one bit. It instead shows that he is a mean, but oddly attractive man in his youthful ages.
*Inserts Alex the lions hi there*
Chapter 5
Chapter 5
The Boys: Jem and Dill
Jem and Dill grow close as friends, even though it is kind of random how Dill just shows up in the last chapter in this review, and says stuff like, "I bet you can't do this." Buddy you just existed at random parts that had nothing to do with you. Thanks a lot, Dill. Now, I'm probably going into Online Anger Management because the story is losing the mystery aesthetic vibes that I was still hoping to read. Jem losing his pants on a wire was pretty funny, though. I just wish Alabama was not really like Alabama, you know?
For Scout and Dill, this age is not a good time to ask about marriage but they do so anyway. At the beginning of the book Scout is six, and Dill is not even seven years old. I was so disappointed in Scout because she was like, "I guess I'm Dill's fiance?" Ima be sick and call 911 at the same time. They are only six years old! Why, Alabama? Why? There's so much randomness going on. This relationship is even more awkward continuing on.
Final Opinion
Final Opinion
I'm alive? Wow, that book was insane, with the amount of chaos I was witnessing by just reading words. After Chapter 5, I would give it a 6/10 rating. It's an interesting book so far. I just feel like a lot more issues should have been formally addressed: says the author with a Scout haircut. Anyway, Harper Lee's overall vision of the book was great and there is more mystery to uncover. Alabama only exists here.
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