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Rereading To kill a Mockingbird because my crush said I needed to. I hated it when I read it for school, apparently it's one of her favorite books.
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Anonymous 22h

It’s like, actually peak though.

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Anonymous 22h

I really love that book, but with the understanding that it is a narrative of black experience written from a white perspective. It’s best paired with books on the same topic written from black perspectives. I think that it is and will continue to be an important literary text, but it needs to be supplementary, not primary for learning about the Jim Crow era.

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Anonymous 22h

Bro lock in

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Anonymous 21h

To kill a mockingbird is so mid, I respect the realism/accuracy of the writing but imo there’s no point reading fiction that just describes an ordinary scenario and adds nothing to it. Luckily it isn’t too long, still longer than several really good classics though iirc.

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Anonymous 21h

ngl just goon

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

Lock in on what? If you mean the book, I've read 1/4th of it in the past 26 hours... and most of that was sleeping and working. I'll be done before my next shift

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 22h

I'm enjoying it more this time... just got to the part where Scout is in 2nd grade and found out Atticus is defending a black guy and the kids are picking on her for it

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 21h

Yeah, I had a problem with how they portrayed Atticus as some kind of hero to the kids when he's still racist, that's why I originally hated it. I've seen and read a lot about Jim Crow though...

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 21h

What?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

masturbate

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

I agree, as much as I think that Atticus was trying to make the right choices, he was still white within a system oppressive to Black peoples and didn’t recognise some of his implicit racism.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 21h

No, I got that part... but I don't see the relevance

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 21h

He didn't even want to represent the black guy... he said the only reason he did it is because he could never hold his head high again. He would lose all authority and self respect for abandoning a client, even if he believed he would lose.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

Dude you need to jack off bro

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

I dont know I just be saying lock in

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

... I don't think the two of you understand that my crush has a lot to do with her personality. It's not going away after jerking off

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

i mean you hated it in high school now you gonna read it for cooch? you could probably goon atleast 10 tens a chapter.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 21h

10 tens? Also who says cooch? I'm doing it because someone who seems knowledgeable and enthusiastic said that my perspective from MIDDLE SCHOOL was too young to appreciate their favorite book. I'll try to get her to read lord of the flies

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

I heard Go Set a Watchman, which wasn’t published in the author’s lifetime, takes a more mature perspective of Atticus’s racism. I haven’t read it but I think it’s abt an adult Scout realizing he isn’t as much of a hero as she thought as a child? But it was written first

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 13h

Interesting, I heard there was a book 2, but I wasn't sure what it would cover

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 23m

Have you considered cranking hog?

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