[Old School Hound]

I read the book in HS and watched the movie as an adult. I enjoyed both. Love Gregory Peck.   Peck and Bette Davis are two of my favorite old Hollywood stars.

I also read Lord of the Flies in HS and watched the movie years later. I also enjoyed those as well. That should  dispel any rumors beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am an advocate of tyrannical self-governance(on deserted islands).   


Here's an interesting take on how TKAM  still resonates today:

"Every movement has its waves that rise and mellow down with time. With discrimination against people of colour in America, the matter is the same. It started with the abolition of slavery, rose again in the 60s with the Civil Rights Movement, and seems to have taken a tsunami-like wave once again, with the wrongful killing by the white police of innocent black citizens. And what these murders are based on is essentially what the novel’s hero Atticus Finch calls “Maycomb’s Disease”, in other words, the negative and demeaning prejudice that society breeds against black people that cost them their lives.

The prejudice reigns and black people like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are killed because of the suspicion of having committed a crime. The fictional Tom Robinson represents the myriad of black people convicted and prosecuted wrongfully in the 1930s, while George Floyd represents the plethora of black people shot down in the name of “self defense” simply because they are black.


Seems like not much has changed. And perhaps, it has worsened. "


https://www.wokemag.in/post/atticus-finc...orge-floyd