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The Book I Have Read Every Summer Since I Was Twelve
I first read To Kill a Mockingbird at 12 and Atticus Finch was a hero without complication. I read it again at 18 and found the novel more complicated than I had remembered. I read it again at 24 and began to see what Scout's narration hides as much as it reveals. Now I read it every summer and have a different conversation with Atticus each time. The novel has not changed. The argument about what it asks of its white readers is ongoing and I am still in it.


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20 Annual Rereads

:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Harper Lee]
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.


:JOURNEY
Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird
5 Heroism clear
4 Cracks appear
3 Framework limits
4 Complicated love

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2006-07-01T00:00:00Z
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z

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Currently in the summer reread, paying attention this year to what Tom Robinson's chapters reveal that Atticus's chapters do not.