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Heidi

(58,846 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:11 AM Sep 2025

Both worth rereading.

I think I first read To Kill a Mockingbird in early junior high and have revisited it many times since. I continue to discover new themes every time I reread it; most recently, I noticed a feminist "red thread" in Lee's descriptions of Scout and the primary women in her life. In addition to the themes of racial injustice and class in the South, the strong woman characters must have been quite something in 1960 when the book was published. (Hell, I was raised in the Upland South and was still being advised by my granny to "sit like a lady" 20-30 years later.)

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