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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know Atticus is not the moral, kind, etc person you describe.

Atticus is a racist... he says the KKK is a political organization, he says they don’t exist anymore in his town.

He’s not a good guy, he’s a bad guy who did a good thing.

Plus it’s a white savior role, which is a flaw in the whole narrative of the book. All classics are flawed. You didn’t learn why TKAM is flawed?

What is the major flaw? It’s a white savior book who dehumanizes and ignores all black characters. The story is about a black man falsely accused, but he is on the fringe of the story... portrayed as helpless, stupid and as useful as a mockingbird.

How is that a problem/flaw in the writing of the book?

Did you learn any of that in the 80’s?[/quote]

NP: Those themes were discussed as possible ways to read the book when I read it with a class in the ‘70s.  (Not the first time I read the book.) One useful exercise that I recall was discussing the issue of “point of view” in the book, and how the story or our understanding of the story might change if a different character from the novel or a different character or point of view not present in the novel was represented.

I don’t have a problem with the novel being used as part of a HS curriculum— as long as it’s taught well, and the syllabus also includes multiple books, either fiction or nonfiction, where Black characters and Black points of view are depicted by Black authors, and this, too, becomes fodder for class discussion.

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