Comments on: Killing a mockingbird https://mattblair.ca/2009/08/12/killing-a-mockingbird/ Toronto creative classer and family man Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: jason https://mattblair.ca/2009/08/12/killing-a-mockingbird/#comment-691 jason Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:39:28 +0000 http://www.mattblair.ca/?p=75#comment-691 Bah. Stupid pseudo-HTML.

]]> By: jason https://mattblair.ca/2009/08/12/killing-a-mockingbird/#comment-10 jason Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:38:27 +0000 http://www.mattblair.ca/?p=75#comment-10 I didn’t read To Kill a Mockingbird in a high school English class — I read it afterwards — but I really wish I had. (For whatever reason, we always got these really terrible novels thrown at us which were supposed to be relevant to teenagers and their struggles, but in the end just absolutely sucked… <em>Ordinary People</em> comes to mind.)

I don’t see why the school’s teachers can’t just start off the study of a novel like this with a little disclaimer (which I imagine most do anyway): “There are instances of a not-so-savoury word in this novel, but don’t get worked up about it; see how it fits with the characters and what they believe.” Hell, it could even be quite a teachable-moment.

I’m more than a bit curious about the ethnicity of the parent who made the complaint… not that it matters, in the end, because feelings are feelings no matter what your background is. Still, though.

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