When i first saw this book with a name "To Kill a mocking bird", my regular apetite for detective and suspense novel arose. So I bought the book without bothering to even give a cursory glance on the storyline. It was among bunch of Agatha christie's novels. Once i reached home i saw that this book was a pulitzer prize winner. Shocked ... According to me these kinds of books were non readable with full of bombastic words which needs dictionary for each word.
Cursing my negligence and laziness i threw it away. But the 300 bucks i paid for it made me to take it and read the first page. But i was surprised to see that it was with a very simple english.
It was a story narrated by a 10 yrs girl, who is putting forth her views on her father, her town, and its people. In her view her father is a dull lawyer who has not won any case, non athletic, not so good in checkers so and so ... She also knows that her brother also think the same way as her about her father.
An incident happens in her town, in which her father was a part. Though she is not able to understand clearly about the incident she could understand who her father is and who her father was. By the end of that incident her perspective about her father undergoes a sea of change. She could also see her brother's view also changed. It was authors very nice narration to show the change in the girl.
I felt it so well written for even guys like me. I loved this book from the beginning to end. This was my first novel of this kind that i have read and loved.
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