On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (Cliffs Notes)
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On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (Cliffs Notes)

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$8.99
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ISBN-13
978-0764586002
Dimensions
5.25 x 0.28 x 8.25 inches
Weight
4.5 ounces

Description

About the Author Tamara Castleman, a graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, is a writer, editor, and literacy advocate.

Features & Highlights

  • The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
  • In
  • CliffsNotes on To Kill a Mockingbird,
  • you explore Harper Lee's literary masterpiece—a novel that deals with Civil Rights and racial bigotry in the segregated southern United States of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of the memorable Scout Finch, the novel tells the story of her father, Atticus, as he hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man accused of raping and beating a white woman.
  • Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Scout's coming of age journey. Critical essays give you insight into racial relations in the South during the 1930s, as well as a comparison between the novel and its landmark film version. Other features that help you study include
  • Character analyses of the main characters
  • Character analyses of the main characters
  • A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
  • A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
  • A section on the life and background of Harper Lee
  • A section on the life and background of Harper Lee
  • A review section that tests your knowledge
  • A review section that tests your knowledge
  • A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
  • A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
  • Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Great for my class

Read the book and this helped me ace my exam. Great for people who dont like reading or people who have read the book and want to cover or further understand important points in the story.
11 people found this helpful
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Good CNotes

Good. Helped my son in class, and YES, we absolutely made him read the book first. I took control of the Cliff Notes, and as he'd read a couple of chapters, I'd share some of the info from the CNotes and we'd talk about it. I read TKaMb when I was in Jr. High, so I loosely recalled the story, but when I read the CNotes, the whole thing came flooding back to me.

Excellent book, and excellent Notes.

Bummer what happened when the family release an alternate version after Lee's death. Sort of tarnished the memory for me.
9 people found this helpful
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Review of Cliffs Notes for "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Most helpful in understanding each chapter of the book. The critical essays at the back of Cliffs Notes and Cliffsnotes Review makes reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" more interesting and challenges one to think about events of that time.
8 people found this helpful
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My son was having a hard time with this book ...

My son was having a hard time with this book. This helped so much and improved his quiz grades. I wished I would have ordered it sooner.
7 people found this helpful
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Great for school

This is just what my son needed for school. It breaks down the book making it easier to understand and learn the key points in the book (chapter by chapter).This will be used to reinforce what he read in the book and it will help him if he missed something that he read.
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Read the Real Book

Only read Cliff's Notes if your desperate, because the book is absolutly fabulous. You're robbing yourself of a great book if you decide to skip the book and read the Cliff's Notes.
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HELPFUL AND INSIGHTFUL

THESE CLIFF NOTES ENRICH ONES READING OD 'MOCKINGBIRD' BY PROVIDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND OFFERING VIEWS/INSIGHTS/ QUESTIONS THAT ALLOW THE READER TO GO EVEN DEEPER INTO THE BRILLIANCE AND MANY MESSAGES CONTAINED IN THIS ICONIC BOOK.

READ IT WITH YOUR READING OF THE BOOK, ITSELF; YOU'LL SEE WHAT I MEAN.
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great!

This book made my life in English class so much easier! I bought a new version of the book and the detailed summaries and character analysis helped me very much. The booklet is concise but full of information. Thank God for Cliffsnotes!
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Loved the info to aid understanding of story .

I really enjoyed these notes to help my son follow and understand the story better as they are reading it in school. I especially liked the character map they made in the book gave you a good visual connection on how characters are connected in story.
It gives you a good description on the characters to help you understand storyline better. Great concept this book is!
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why?

Unless there are obvious problems with reading, why would a person need Cliff's Notes for this book? It is an incredibly simple, straight forward novel. I am not being offensive, but I am slightly stunned...
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