Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird - Faults with Characters, Plot, and

The Flaws of To charge a Mockingbird Is it possible to sample literary classics to have failings or are they beyond contemporary measurements? As perfection is not attainable in any media, classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, dope be bring to have many instances of fault and flaw. A dandy novel should ease the reader into learning the floorings characters and histories. It should include a temporary hookup that keeps the reader up all night wanting to read more than. And it should too include a tooth root that remains clear and focused to perish out to a reader without existence encumbered. However this is not the skid with To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird has faults with its characters, plot, and overall theme. The inlet of both the characters and their histories are flawed. The novel hastily presents a great do of characters within a short amount of written space create the reader trouble when trying to differentiate between them. With a hardly a(prenominal) dozen individuals taking part in the goings on in the story arc, one finds oneself constantly backtracking through the story to find previous references and descriptions of the characters to regard as who they are. What is worse is the fact that many of the names of said persons mentioned early in the story make no appearance at all subsequent on in the work. ...but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb county a name synonymous with jackass...John vigorous Finch was ten years younger than my father (Lee 5). Jem gave Dill the general attitudes of the more prominent figures Mr. Tensaw Jones voted the straight Prohibition ticket Miss Emily Davis dipped sniff in private Mr. Byron Waller could play the violin... (Lee 159). This leads t... ...un in his hand (Lee 112). This lesson or theme is one of several that the children learn in the story, this particular one being from the incident with Mrs. Dubose. The majority of the novel m akes use these sub arcs and lessons to add eye the novel. But instead dilutes the true them of the book, and the reason for which is was made. In conclusion, one finds that because of problems found within the characters, plot, and theme of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, that this piece of determinate literature is not perfect. Clearly by realizing its faults one can call for that even a well-known and loved book is often no better than any of the mediocre novels of today. Classical works can thus be judged, and many are far from perfect. Work Cited Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. (New York, N.Y. Warner Books, Inc., 1982) 3-5, 99, 112, 159, 164, 247.