![]() ![]() ![]() I would say that it’s about a lot of things…I mean, obviously it’s a lot about sort of issues of racial justice and injustice, and it’s about small-town life, it’s about this sort of growing consciousness of a child. About a family and about a good father, who’s concerned about his family, but he’s also legitimately concerned about his community. It’s about more than a slice of life in the South. The underlying theme is the sometimes treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system in the South. And I thought that, more than anything else, she was able to capture that. There’s that duality that all human beings have that nobody’s essentially all bad or all good. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. “Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong…” “Scout,” said Atticus, “when summer comes, you’ll have to keep your head about far worse things…This case, Tom Robinson’s case, is something that goes to the essence of a man’s conscience-Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship God if I didn’t try to help that man.” Today we’ll visit Macon, Alabama as we discuss the classic 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Here’s your host, poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Guioa. At a time when reading is rapidly declining among all age groups, The Big Read encourages each American to discover the transformative joys of reading. The largest reading program in American history, the Big Read is designed to unite communities across the nation through great literature. ![]() Welcome to The Big Read, a program created by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. ![]()
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