Dec 19, 2000 12:38 AM
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It's a story, so well written that it's hard to believe that it isn't true. It depicts the harsher realities of life that few unfortunate are forced to gothrough.
A black negro facing a false rape allegation, finds a lawyer to fight his case and this Pulitzer prize winning novel of Harper Lee, is a narration of this whole incident by the lawyers' 10 year old girl. The lawyer is condemned, threatened and abused by the society for fighting for a black man.
How the father(lawyer), fights this case and tries to cover her daughter and answers her innocent questions on the abrupt changes that come in their life is what the story is all about.
The style and language is 'simple' but touches you to the core. The story,however dwells at a slow pace.
