Summer 2010
50th Anniversary: To Kill A Mockingbird
People who differ from the center of a misapplied Bell Curve are the mockingbirds for Haper Lee in her monumental pulitzer prize winning To Kill A Mockingbird, celebrating its 50th Anniversary all summer in 2010:
Mockingbirds: people with mental health issues, geniuses, feminists, a black man in the Depression Era South. In the book, the mockingbird is also the bystander mentality, not wanting to rock the boat. The group repeated the chant of the larger community for safety’s sake. Status quo, mediocrity…
People that mind their own business and do no harm are attacked in America by people that don’t have enough to do. These are the innocents like the book’s characters Arthur (Boo) Radley and Tom Robinson.
Click the link to find out more about the Summer 2010 theatrical performances and celebrity readings of To Kill A Mockingbird.
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