To Kill a Mockingbird, Part I - Crash Course Literature 210
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Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course Literature, and today we’re going to talk about To Kill a Mockingbird. So Mockingbird is the rare class of American literature that is both one, relatively easy to read and two, pretty fun to read. I mean, it’s got a cool and somewhat creepy plot that draws you in. There is a young girl, Scout; her brother, Jem; and their weird neighbor, Dill, who become obsessed with their even weirder neighbor, “Boo” Radley. The kids spend a lot of time reenacting Boo’s backstory — the highlight of which involves him allegedly stabbing his father in the leg with scissors — and the children become schooled in gender, race, and class relations in Depression-Era Alabama. MFTP: Mr. Green, Mr. Green, I’m from Alabama! I know, Me From the Past, beca...
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Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course Literature, and today we’re going to talk about To Kill a Mockingbird. So Mockingbird is the rare class of American literature that is both one, relatively easy to read and two, pretty fun to read. I mean, it’s got a cool and somewhat creepy plot that draws you in. There is a young girl, Scout; her brother, Jem; and their weird neighbor, Dill, who become obsessed with their even weirder neighbor, “Boo” Radley. The kids spend a lot of time reenacting Boo’s backstory — the highlight of which involves him allegedly stabbing his father in the leg with scissors — and the children become schooled in gender, race, and class relations in Depression-Era Alabama. MFTP: Mr. Green, Mr. Green, I’m from Alabama! I know, Me From the Past, beca...
