Atticus seemed too noble but despite him acting like it, he never lived up to it because he could have probably saved Tom from being charged guility. Saying a speech in front of ignorant racists wasn't going to make a difference and I think he knew either way that Tom was going to be guility. My favorite character was Scout because I could relate to her more.. being loud and always a tomboy despite Aunt Alexandra trying to change her ways. I hated Mrs. Dubose though... even though she died, I couldn't find any sympathy for her whatsoever. She treated everyone like crap so why should anyone feel sorry for her, especially Atticus? It's a great book and all but sometimes the author brooded too much over simple little boring things or the characters. It didn't really get interesting until the middle when the trial was near. Seriously though, I wish my English teacher hadn't made us do so much work on it like writing chapter reviews for each chapter and then getting 10 vocabulary words from almost every chapter. In order to actually be interested in this book, you don't do a page of writing of what the chapter was about... the story just unravels by itself anyways. They shouldn't have made a movie on it though... bad idea there. <img src='/images/emoticons/smiley4.png'>
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