Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:17:17 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

Quoted content corrected.
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J. J. Lodder wrote:

<this is claimed to be a synopsis from an edition of /To Kill a
Mockingbird/>

Synopsis
       "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but
remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". This is a lawyer's advice to
his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story - a black
man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s
                      (The Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition)

<snippo>

The simplest search substantiates your statements. Thank you for the
additional information about bluejays.

If actual research shows Tom to be the mockingbird rather than Boo,
then the book must differ considerably from the film.

I think this is a case of "synopsis-writer didn't actually read the
book but just glanced through it", but I could be wrong.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"