《To Kill a Mockingbird》是一本由Harper Lee著作，Grand Central Publishing出版的平装图书，本书定价：7.99美元，页数：281，文章吧小编精心整理的一些读者的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(一)：孩童的内心
不是一个故事强的小说。妙在全书以一个小姑娘觉得自己已经是小大人的口吻来叙述她的周遭。ATTICUS是个好爸爸，尽管其它所有人都不认同，他用他的方式告诉孩子是非分明，告诉他们什么是正义感。
三个孩童在一个无聊的小镇里度过一个个四季，幻想着隔壁不出来的怪人，甚至还排戏;会因为爸爸被人家叫"nigger lover"而心中忿忿却不知其意;
最后那个“黑人强奸案”中的“坏人”回归到开篇Jem手严重受伤的因，让整个故事变得很完满。
更多的看的是小朋友的心里活动和自白，是孩童眼中成人的世界。值得去读。
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(二)：细节摘录
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
不知道为什么，以前这个书名给我印象一直是关于什么谋杀案推理类的小说，等我真的翻开这本书时，真是万幸我抛开了先入为主的偏见。看到好书总是让我“无语”，无法用语言表达，只能做摘录。
从一个七八岁女孩Scout的视角观察和描述复杂的成人世界，两条主线很清晰，一条是让孩子们好奇万分的神秘人Boo Radley，另一条是律师父亲Atticus为黑人辩护引起的风波。关于正义和平等的讨论已经很多，我更想记录故事主线中穿插的各种动人细节。
cout邀请一个没带午饭的同学来家里吃饭，当她看到他往盘子里拼命倒糖浆时忍不住说他。仆人Calpurnia把她叫到厨房：
——有些人吃饭习惯和我们不一样，但你不能在餐桌上指责他们。他是客人，就算他要把桌布吃了你也要让他吃了。
——但他不是我的客人，他只是穷人家Cuningham。
——不管他们是谁，来到这里都是客人，不要让我听到你这样评论他们，好像你比他们高贵一样。你们也许家境比他们好，但不许瞧不起他们。
老师发现Scout刚上学就已经识字，说她父亲这样教育是错的，命令她在家不许跟读书，她觉得很恼火，跟父亲说不想上学了。父亲告诉她“如果你能学会一个简单的小技巧，你就能和所以这些人相处得很好。你永远不可能真正了解一个人，除非你从他的角度去看问题。”并和她达成协议，只要她乖乖上学，晚上回来照样读书，但是不能让老师知道。这叫妥协。
兄妹俩和小伙伴Dill对终日闭门的邻居Radley一家非常好奇，总想知道里面是怎样的，Boo Radley是不是真的连老鼠都吃。（广东人表示毫无压力）父亲发现他们胡闹后严肃告诉他们：Radley想出门或是想待在屋里都是他自己的权利，你们没有理由去打扰他。他的生活方式在我们看来似乎有点奇怪，但对他自己来说不奇怪。如果不被邀请，就不许靠近那座房子。
孩子们和神秘人的联系时断时续，树洞里出现的小礼物，掉在屋后却整齐叠好的衣服，火灾当晚莫名披上的毯子。
cout问Atticus为什么要黑人辩护，他回答：
—— 如果我不这样做，我就没办法在镇上抬起头来，我也不能作为法院的代表，甚至不能教导你和Jem什么该做什么不该做。
每个律师在一生中总会遇到一两个会影响到他自身的案件，也许这就是我那个案子。你在学校会听到一些不好的议论，不过请为我做一件事：你只管昂着头，把拳头放下，不管别人对你说什么，都不要发火，试着用头脑去抗争……你头脑很好，虽然不爱学习。
——Atticus，我们会赢吗？
——不会，宝贝儿。
——那为什么……
——道理很简单，不能因为我们过去已经失败了一百年，就停止去争取胜利。
cout问叔叔“Whore-lady”什么意思，他没有回答，给她讲了别的故事转移注意力。Atticus说：当一个孩子问你问题时，直接回答他，但不要小题大做。说脏话是每个孩子都要经历的一个阶段，随着他们长大认识到那样并不能引人注意后，自然会改掉。但是暴躁的脾气却不会。
“我宁愿你在后院射易拉罐。不过我知道，你肯定要去打鸟的。你射多少蓝鸟都没关系。但要记住，杀死一只反舌鸟就是一桩罪恶。”
那是我第一次听阿蒂克斯说做什么是一桩罪恶，我问莫迪小姐是怎么回事。 “你父亲说的对，”她说，“反舌鸟唱歌给我们听，什么坏事都不做。它们不吃人们园子里的花果蔬菜，不在玉米仓里做窝，它们只是衷心为我们唱歌。这就是为什么谋杀一直反舌鸟就是一桩罪恶。”
兄妹两发现父亲原来是神枪手，但现在不碰枪。莫迪小姐说：“如果非要说你父亲是怎样的人，他是打心底善良的人。好枪法是上帝赋予的礼物，是一项才能，要练习到熟能生巧，但它不像弹钢琴。我想他不要用枪是因为他意识到上帝赋予了他一项对其他生物不公平的长处，所以他决定不到迫不得已不再用枪。”
cout想在学校宣扬爸爸是神枪手的事，Jem说：“不行，什么都不要说。我想，如果他想我们知道，他会告诉我们，如果他为此感到骄傲，他早就告诉我们了。”
——大部分人都认为他们是对的而你错了……
——他们有充分的权利那样想，而且我尊重他们的意见。但是在和其他人相处之前，我要和自己相处。一个人的良心不能从众。
Atticus说，“为黑鬼帮腔（nigger-lover）只是一种无聊的称呼——就像鼻涕虫一样。它很难解释清楚——愚昧低贱的人每当觉得有人关爱黑人胜过他们时，就会拿它来骂人。它也混进了我们这类人的日常词汇中，用以给人打上卑贱丑陋的标签。
——可你不是真爱黑人，对吗？
——我当然爱，我尽我所能去爱每一个人……有时我也很为难。宝贝，如果别人认为那是个下贱的说法并用来称呼你，对你来说永远构不成侮辱。它只能显示那个人有多可怜，它不能伤害你。”
Mrs Dubose支持种族隔离，她嘲弄他们的父亲，Jem火气上来把她的花给毁了，作为惩罚，Jem要每天下午给她念书。她躺在病床上常常纠正他读错的地方，有时又很快睡去。到了Mrs Dubose去世，父亲才说出她其实一直在吗啡上瘾症搏斗，本来只是止痛用的，她却决定离开世界时不需依靠任何人和东西。要求Jem去给她念书只是她转移自己注意力的方式
“我要你知道真正的勇气是什么。勇气不是手里握着枪，而是知道你还未开始就会输，仍然要去做，无论如何坚持到底。你很少会赢，但有时也会。Mrs Dubose赢了，用她那仅仅九十八磅的身躯。按照她的观点，她死得无怨无悔。不欠任何人，也不依赖任何东西，她是我见过的最勇敢的人。”
仆人Calpurnia带他们去黑人专用的教堂做礼拜，有人抗议：“这是我们的教堂。”
“同一个上帝，不是吗？”
cout注意到Cal和黑人讲话跟在她家讲话不一样，所谓的nigger-talk，带很多错误语病。就问她为什么要那样说话，明明懂得更多讲得更好。Cal回答：
“没有必要把你懂的全部东西都说出来，那不合妇女规范——再说，人们不喜欢他们身边有人比他们聪明，那会让他们很恼火，你说得再正确，也改变不了这些人。除非他们想学，否则一点办法也没有。你要么闭上嘴巴，要么就使用他们的语言。”
（Calpurnia是个有智慧的仆人，把两个孩子教育得很好。）
当时的黑人很多不识字，唱诵经文时由一个识字的人先一句、大家跟着唱一句的方式进行，如果有听不清楚跟不上的，重复念一次再唱。
亚历山德拉姑姑当年上学的时候，课本上根本找不到‘自我怀疑’这个词，所以她也不知道那是什么意思。她从不寂寞，只要给她一丁点儿机会，她要么行使帝王般的特权：她要去安排、去建议、去劝诫、去警告。
即使是面对要伤害他的人，Atticus仍说对方是个好人，他只是有“盲区”。
“一群暴民是由人组成的，无论如何，Cuningham先生是昨晚暴民中的一员，但他仍是一个人。每个镇上每群人都是由你认识的人组成的。”
Atticus曾经说过，辨别证人是否在撒谎的一种方法是听，而不是去看。
开庭审判那天，三个小孩混到法庭里听，Dill突然哭了起来，Scout带他到外面透透气，遇到Mr. Raymond，他说等Dill过几年长大了就不会这样哭了。出于本能，单纯了为了人对自己的同胞所犯的罪恶而哭泣。为了白人对黑人所做的事——根本没想到大家都是人——而哭泣。
Mr. Raymond也是个有意思的人物，整天拿着个瓶子，大家都认为瓶子里是酒，孩子们发现其实只是可乐。他只是假装喝酒醉醺醺的，人们看不起他和黑人混在一起。“我假装喝酒只是给他们找个理由，他们认为我一直是醉的，没法改变，所以这样生活。这个理由他们能接受。”“但别人永远不明白我这样生活只是因为我想这样生活。”
“（家族）背景不是指存在时间的长短，”Jem说，“我觉得是家族开始读书写字的时间。”
上课时老师提到希特勒，Scout不是很明白，回家问Atticus：
——可以厌恶希特勒吗？
——不，不可以厌恶任何人。
“除非你穿上一个人的鞋子，像他一样走来走去，否则你永远无法真正了解一个人。”
尽管事实显而易见，Atticus在法庭上尽力争取，无辜的黑人还是被判决有罪。丧心病狂的原告Ewell仍不甘心，黑夜里对两个孩子下毒手，神秘人Boo Radley救了他们，按Scout所描述的，Boo应该是患了白化病所以长年不出门。终于见到Boo，小女孩非常激动，在他的请求下还挽着他把他送回家。
回头看看总觉得漏了什么，以后看到再补充吧。
【以下是英文摘录：】
“There's some folks who don't eat like us, but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'any and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear？
He ain't company, Cal, he's just a Cuningham-
Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's your company, and don't let me catch you remaikin'on
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quot;If you shouldn't be defendin' him, then why are you doin' it？" "For a number of reasons," said Atticus. "The main one is, if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again."
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quot;Because I could never ask you to mind me again. Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine, I guess. You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning." "Atticus, are we going to win it？" "No, honey." "Then why-" "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said.
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Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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quot;Wonder why he never goes huntin' now," I said. "Maybe I can tell you," said Miss Maudie. "If your father's anything, he's civilized in his heart. Marksmanship's a gift of God, a talent- oh, you have to practice to make it perfect, but shootin's different from playing the piano or the like. I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn't shoot till he had to, and he had to today."
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quot;People in their right minds never take pride in their talents," said Miss Maudie.
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just hold your head high and be a gentleman."
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quot;Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong...." "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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quot;You aren't really a nigger-lover, then, are you？" "I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes- baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew."
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Calpurnia said, "It's the same God, ain't it？"
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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quot;It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike- in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."
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When Aunt Alexandra went to school, self-doubt could not be found in any textbook, so she knew not its meaning. She was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.
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Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
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Cunningham's basically a good man," he said, "he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us."
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A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know-
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Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch:
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quot;Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too."
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quot;Background doesn't mean Old Family," said Jem. "I think it's how long your family's been readin' and writin'.
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quot;That's what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other？ If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other？ Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time... it's because he wants to stay inside."
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quot;But it's okay to hate Hitler？" "It is not," he said. "It's not okay to hate anybody."
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Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(三)：做一个像Atticus一样的人
读Mockingbird的起因是要到南部旅行一趟。来了美国后一直听说有关南方人、南方食物的种种，虽多是偏见和玩笑，却激起我去一探究竟的愿望。为了做点准备功课，提前在网上搜了一些基于南部题材的小说，希望通过侧面了解一些其独特的地域文化。于是找到了Mockingbird。我很努力地去读，但还是没有在走之前读到一半，所领悟的到南部文化也不过是一些俚语罢了。
真正踏上南部之行后，便忘掉了小说里的一切。毕竟是现代社会，没什么“特别”不一样的地方。唯一印象深刻的差别，是物价的悬殊，比起加州简直像是两个国家。旅行结束回到家，再次翻开这本小说，却仿佛进入了另一个世界。
走之前读的是Scout和Jem无聊的学校生活，Scout和Dill清澈纯洁的感情，以及Atticus作为父亲不可思议般的开明和教导。Boo是一个神秘的存在，但没有想到最后他会以那种方式现身。回来后开始读到Tom的案子，小镇居民的态度让我吃惊，Atticus的言传身教似乎让Scout和Jem成长了很多，Dill却突然没有以前那么神气。高潮部分自然是案件的庭审，Atticus的质问令人叫绝，一度让我以为会有翻案的可能。判定有罪是预料之中，但最没想到的是最后Jem的遇袭以及Boo的挺身而出。Heck和Atticus的对话亦令人回味。
相比于前半部分，读后半部分时我的兴致和动量都大了很多，几乎是一口气读了下来。除了故事引人入胜的情节和Lee生动诙谐的笔触，最让我思考的是Atticus对Scout和Jem的教育方式：他的孩子可以对他直呼其名；他会认真听并思考孩子的想法，却鲜以直接灌输他的观点；他给予孩子充分的尊重，信任他们的判断；更重要的，他对每一个人抱有同理心，并在任何条件下恪守他做人的信条，以身作则。Atticus并不是一个生活在理想世界的人。作为一名律师，或许他是最了解现实的人。但在残酷的现实世界，他保存着内心的理想。毕竟，“Layers, I suppose, were children once.”
有人说Boo其实是小说的英雄，象征着Mockingbird。我更愿意做一个像Atticus一样的人，正直而有骨气地活着。
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(四)：Simple goodness
I reckon one of the America's most extinguishing features is not its racial discrimination,but its progress of fixing it with uncessant efforts to reveal it and to struggle against it.Just like Atticus said,though it's not possible to allow a negro to defeat a white man in the court,and maybe it takes lots of generations to fix it,but this time it already takes more time for the fury to convict Tom Robinson guilty,it's already a big step,even it seems tiny and disgusting in his children's eyes.That's why America is a country regarded as a new world with refreshments and vigor,fairness could be enacted the most effectively than any other societies,especially to some Asian countries.
quot;To Kill a Mockingbird" provides me something to reflect on rather than some engrained answers,it taps me to ponder.Reading it,I'm often deeply moved and astonished.On Robinson's case,he's a dead man since Mayella started to talk to him and ask him run errands for her.He just tries to help her out of sympathy,for she suffers really bad from her father.And I suppose under such condition,a black man is unable to refuse to help a white girl though her family's social class is the lowest among the whites.Thus,an innocent black man's brutally killed.It won't last long as a talking topic in the town and a shock to the habitants.But we can see the changes,Tom Robinson's employer starts to hire his wife Helen and tries to protect her.This is an indication of the inner developement.
I like Atticus and the way how he educates his children.At the first place,he treated his children equally,as his friends.He respects them and listens patiently to their sayings and tries to answer the questions they raised.He never attempt to block the truth to his children or send them away by the excuse as they are too little to hear it.He knows that if he refuses to tell the children they will find it out by themselves anyway.This is something fewer Chinese parents would do.What Atticus does is rather wise.From the view of their children,Scout and Jem,they respect and love their father.It surprises me at first very much that they never call their father"father","daddy",they just call him Atticus,right the name.Of course it must be under their father's acquiescence.But it is absolutely hard to imagine a father to do such thing.Also,Scout and Jem are never afraid of their father to punish them without a right reason.So we can see that under such family educations,Scout and Jem learn integrit,sympathy,kindness,and the brightest humanity lies in Atticus,conscience.
This book tells from a child's view and a child's tone to reveal us the simplest but deepest points.It uses a lot of simple words and sentences to motion us to reconsider just some daily stuff.Maybe that's one of the reasons why it's such a great book.
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(五)：怎样直面真实的冷
这是一篇临时起意，很私人类似日记的评，正人君子烦请绕道。
刚读完这本书的时候，我心里还在暗自琢磨，要么今年过年把这本书送老爸吧！看人家老爸Atticus多炫酷，而到此刻，我想像Dill看完审判一样大哭一场——这个世界不对。
我不得不承认对于老爸多年来家庭角色的缺失，我是心存怨怼的。尤其是当我休假回家他还每早6点叫我起床的时候，尤其是每次他怨老妈惯坏我了的时候，尤其是每次和他对起争执的时候。但真叫我看他对别人卑躬屈膝，真是整个人都不好了。
其实，并没有什么大不了，只能说从小到大被保护得太好了。作为一个在小镇长大的臭丫头，对于父辈的朋友从来不走心，见N遍也记不住。每次我都默默在脑海里面搜索记忆，最后只能靠老爸老妈提醒，才说某叔好，某姨好。那时候蛮多人吐槽我高傲的，我其实挺委屈，那么大岁数非得和我小孩儿一般见识，关键我真不认识你啊。现在想来，肯定好多人嫌我没教养，其实我只是记性不好而已。
对于人与人之间，我总是很幼稚地追求一些不切实际的感情。也不知道是因为看虚伪的脸看多了，还是因为看童话看多了。我喜欢交陌生而真诚的朋友，总觉得大家萍水相逢，就不要再计较那么多得失了。所以跟我耍小心思的，让我踢了；跟我表达不恰当爱意的，让我踢了；跟我无法沟通交流的，让我踢了。也会假设自己被别人踢了的感受，但我想如果对方真的不待见我，还不如就踢了吧，假模假式的，多特么累。
最讨厌过年过节串亲戚送礼，可我清楚，人生在世，还算是多方呵护的结果，为此老妈经常批我没有人情味儿。可朋友能挑，亲戚又不能挑。两个哥哥结婚我没回去，妹妹结婚我也没回去，倒是猴纸结婚我回去了，这事儿办得是有点儿不太地道，典型的重色轻亲啊。但哥哥妹妹总还是一家人，而猴纸基本上人生再没什么交集了吧。我这算是太把亲人当亲人了吧？或许多些客套总是好的。
我现在终于知道，不是记不住人名，是自己没走心，这次每个人我都记住了，不知道自己会记多久，或许没多久就忘了吧，包括那些一想起就想哭的画面。
其实想让孩子成熟，只需让他/她看到你的保护就可以了。唉，老爸老妈养败家女太不容易了，万分同情在心中。
我本来是照着个热泪盈眶的目标写的，中午吃顿饭，又好了伤疤忘了疼了。看来面对真实的冷，最重要的还是要吃饭。
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(六)：听完上半部的随想
听完了上半部，先记录一些零碎想法，以备忘。
没有一个一以贯之的主情节，是一个种族色彩明显的南方小镇一个小女孩成长中的一些小事件和想法。看似东一枪、西一枪的散漫叙事，但明显感觉暗藏严谨的结构(也懒得再费神去分析了)。散文体的小说？
作者意图输出的价值观可简化为——建立在理性基础上的良知。之下更具体的一些价值观：
- 审视自己的看法，如果发现是基于偏见或建立在无根据的基础上，则应放弃；
- 对待他人，要以直(甚至以德)报怨，同时对“怨”要假定他人有正当的理由；
- 不要用暴力去解决事端；
- 严以律己、宽以待人，即便对自己的小孩，也是如此。
作品是名作的原因：
- 读者宛如置身种族色彩明显的南方小镇，带着那个喜欢打架的小女孩的视角；
- 有许多不动声色的幽默；
- 观点的展示很好，比如女主老爸不打鸟，是因为他觉得相对动物，猎枪给了他不公平的优势(类似英美的刑事诉讼中控辩双方武器平等的原则？)
。。。
但应该很难成为名著吧？
- 作者带了输出价值观的意图；
- 有时说教色彩过于明显、方式过于简单，比如俩小孩崇拜老爸主要是他神枪射杀疯狗；恶语相向的病中老太转变太快，还博得老爸赞是世上最勇敢的人。
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首次用混杂的方式听书，一会听，一会一边听一边看英文，一会一边听一边看中文。
朗读者的声音很好听啊，以后还要听她的书。The Help的首个朗读者声音和她的蛮像，这本以后也要听。
以后要读翻译生硬的译本，就在一边放有声版。
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(七)：For Mockingbird the Bell Tolls
Mockingbirds sing beautifully. They don’t do one thing but make music for people to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, they don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for people. However beautiful their songs are, they still get trapped and get persecuted in this book-To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, but somebody did. After reading this book, I just hope that there will be bells tolling for the poor mockingbird.
Without doubt, Tom Robinson is a mockingbird. His tragedy results from his identity-he is a Negro.
The story takes place in Alabama in 1930s, when the Great Depression reached its worst depths. Racism was extremely serious in the deep south part of the U.S. At that time, black people were at the bottom rung of society, the most bottom than you could ever imagine. The discrimination from the white towards the black was far deeper than we could imagine. It seems like the white were born with racial discrimination.
Against this background, Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping a white woman Mayella Ewell. However, Tom was just a little mockingbird. He worked hard for his employer. He was kindhearted, and that’s why he always helped Ms. Mayella without payback. He sings himself, solely and peacefully. But one day, when Mayella tempted him, her father, Bob Ewell, saw it. Since then, everything had changed. He was sent to the jail because Bob Ewell accused him of raping his daughter. Although his lawyer, Atticus, tried his best, the sentence did not favor him. It most certainly was that Mayella and her father were liars. But that didn’t change anything. It is all because Tom Robinson is an insultingly-called “nigger”.
In actual fact, this case is as simple as black and white. It is all about racism. A sad but real truth. People held the common belief that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around white women. But Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal. I can’t see any equality in this case. What I see is all about racism, unfairness, and prejudice. At this time, what Miss Gates told Scout in this book-equal rights for all, special privileges for none-seems really sarcastic.
As for this case, I really have something to say. People are born to be equal. Everyone has his or her fundamental rights, which could never ever be violated. Regardless of people’s appearance, we should be united. Skin color does not represent anything. Everyone has the rights to confidently raise his or her head and says I am proud of my skin color; I am proud of my race. Everyone is born to be a human, not a slave or something else. It is totally ridiculous to discriminate anyone. That is extremely childish and unbearable. Human is human. The biggest characteristic that distinguishes us from other species is that we could think. But I can’t see any ability to think among those people who discriminate colored ones. I want to ask them some questions. Why do you discriminate black people？ What have they done？ Are there any advantages for you to treat a group of men like that？ Do you ever know the basic rules to be a human？ Have you ever learnt about human history？ Have you ever thought about the negative consequences to the black people brought by you？ My questions are endless. But I am most certainly that they could not give me satisfied answers to just the few questions above. If they think by themselves, deeply and profoundly, they’ll probably figure out how funny discriminations are. People are born to think. If not, there are no differences between us and lower animals. Once again, people are born to be equal.
It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. But somebody in Maycomb did. It’s a tragedy. It’s a fortune. The death of an innocent mockingbird is tragic. It’s a fortune for Tom to leave such a world filled with dirt and ignorance, unfairness and prejudice, however. The bell tolls for Tom. The bell also tolls for the ignorant people.
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(八)：To kill a mockingbird is a sin.
原著中有很多精彩的句子，有一句我特别赞同there are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one. 故事中有两个高潮，一个是白人律师Atticus为被诬陷的黑人Tom辩护，还有"可怕的坏人"Boo救了Atticus的儿子Jem.
其实Mockingbird在文中出现的次数只有寥寥几笔，但是代表了mockingbird的黑人和被别人取笑但是经常悄悄做好事的Boo很完美地呼应了书名to kill a mockingbird。到底有哪些人企图kill这两只善良的mockingbird？社会？种族歧视？刻板印象？书中以小孩子Scout口吻慢慢道来的故事给出了答案。未来应该会再看多几遍…Atticus在结案陈词那段实在太震撼…有生之年读了Haper Lee作品，无憾了
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《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(九)：关于种族歧视，门第观念的一些碎碎念。
一战后美国的一个南方小镇；一个律师家庭，算是一个体面的家庭；一个父亲（Atticus），律师，一个儿子（Jem），聪明成熟，一个女儿（scout），a tomboy，一个家务管家（卡帕尼亚），黑人妇女；各式各样的邻居，孩子们的好朋友莫迪小姐，代表着真正的courage的道波斯太太，A gossip monger的斯蒂芬妮小姐，隐居的神秘人Boo Radley；暑假玩伴迪尔......
两条线：
1.孩子们（思格特，杰姆，迪尔）对Boo Radley感到十分好奇，希望可以见到他真相。Radley是个怪物，吃老鼠等小动物，他们想。他为什么一直待在屋子里呢？30年不曾出来。孩子们一系列冒险，恶作剧，都围绕着这个“怪物”展开。
2.Tom Robinson被镇上的无赖Ewell诬赖说强奸了自己的大女儿，由Addicus作为他的律师。南方小镇对黑人的歧视把Atticus一家推向舆论的风口浪尖，邻居的冷嘲热讽羞辱恶意中伤，让Scout和Jem从心理上渐渐成熟起来。在黑人和白人的对决中，舆论总是偏向白人的，即使那只是一个White Trash。Atticus的坚定的表现拨动了在白人心中的关于歧视的那根弦，官司是输了，但是离成功确是进了一小步的。可是Tom在上诉之前越狱被射杀，死了。Ewell官司是赢了但是他始终都是white trash，他没有得到他预期的生活上社会地位上的质的改变，他唯一一点信誉在这场官司上完全透支了。他要复仇，他唾骂Atticus，唾骂Tom的遗孀，盗窃未果弄破法官家的纱窗，这些都是小打小闹不痛不痒的事情。有一种人，或者说有一种渣，只会做些欺软怕硬的勾当。对于两个毫无自卫能力的孩子，他最终伸出了罪恶的手。
为什么要换一小节呢，因为下面是两条线的交点。
在Ewell企图杀死Jem和Scout的时候，Boo出现了。救了两个孩子。Ewell死了。Scout终于见到了Boo流下了幸福又激动的眼泪。
以上是剧透。
英文版中文版夹着看的，看的比较纠结，所以最后角色的名字都记得很混乱。因为是英语老师布置的作业，本来是丝毫不感兴趣的，看完却感触颇深。
对于Tom Robinson一案，正如书名所说，To Kill a Mockingbird。Tom是一个正直谦卑的黑人，是一个真正的男子汉。过分善良以至于被小人诬陷。打官司的那一段，从原告方和被告方的对质中，人人都可以看出Ewell父女在撒谎，那个谎言龌龊而又漏洞百出；而Tom，完全无罪。试试怎么样在场的所有人都心知肚明，可是，可是他们迈不过心中那道坎：黑人，下等人种，卑贱愚蠢，黑人男人总是垂涎白人女人。所以Tom必须有罪。这场官司一开始Atticus就输了。输给一种成见，因愚昧而致的成见。然而Atticus没有放弃，他挣扎着做着努力，带着他的两个孩子，背负着忍受着别人的误解和嘲笑，在法庭上做出漂亮的反击，即便最后法院宣布Tom有罪，但是Atticus冷静的给镇上的所有人扇了一记耳光：你们以往对黑人的成见都是错误的，你们要正视这个错误了。
关于种族歧视，我总是想到黑格尔的“存在即合理”。可能我对这句话的理解是有偏差的，我也没有说，既然种族歧视事实存在就是合理的。可是这种延续了几百年甚至现在还存在的观念，到底是怎么来的？
看完这本书久久不能平静，索性就去洗了个澡，洗澡的时候的胡思乱想总是高效的。我果然开悟了。我想当文明刚刚迈上新的一个台阶的白人漂洋过海在一片陌生的土地上，看到一群皮肤黝黑傻呵呵的几乎不穿衣服的人——我觉得他们一开始就没有把黑人当人看，那个时候歧视就开始了。我们文明人，你们野蛮人，不在一个层次呢。白人想。这种成见就代代相传了。
又想到US History的老师说，你以为白人怎么买卖黑人的？买卖是双方的，谁在卖那些黑人？当然是他们自己。用自己人去换白人盐，布，酒。黑人在文明的路上行走跌跌撞撞被芒草割伤，拿自己的人换点人家文明的产物自己沾点文明的光好像也无可厚非，黑人想。一代一代的黑人就被这样鄙视了。
以上只是小女愚见，未做任何research，如有让人难以忍受的错误忘指正。
回到书上，在法庭上，Scout，Jem，迪尔三个小孩子躲在黑人堆里看着一切，迪尔突然哭了。Ewell的律师问Tom问题的时候，那个态度让他感到难受。后来Atticus也说，如果陪审团是由孩子们组成的，Tom一定被释放了。
孩子的眼睛是清澈的，他们往往可以看到最本质的问题。
他们很气愤很难受可是却无能为力。
tereotype，刻板印象，成见，好像是一层污垢，带有成见的人被埋在里面看不到真相，无法客观公正的给予某些人和事正确的评价。被埋着他们高兴么？不见得吧。
Atticus把人们欣赏那层厚厚的污垢敲掉了一小层，人们觉得好像，透气了一点，但是，他们绝对不会承认他们常年不洗澡那么脏那么邋遢。他们不但不承认，还要说，我们是有教养的，我们是文明的，我们是正确的。
等级制度，好像也是一样。
Jem和Scout讨论“门第”问题。Jem说世界上有四类人，一类是真实的普通人，一类是住在林子里的人，一类是Ewell那种住在垃圾堆里人，一类是黑人。
cout比Jem小四岁，她说，不，Jem，这世界上只有一类人。
心智越成熟，想得越多，反而在心中形成了“门第”这样的观念。Jem虽然也觉得这种分类是不对的，但是他承认了它的存在。
以前看过这样一句话，成长就是慢慢长成自己原本讨厌的那类人。
呸，我才不要跟成年人一样瞎。
我相信人人平等，不管是黑人白人还是黄种人，穷人还是有钱人，念过书的人还是文盲，人人平等。
“厌恶一个人总是错误的。”
Atticus说的。
《To Kill a Mockingbird》读后感(十)：To Kill a Mockingbird synopsis
To Kill a Mockingbird
y Harper Lee
This story tells an incidence occurred in 1936 in Maycomb, Alabama (north Alabama) had changed the lives of 3 kids. The narrator was named Scout, full name was Jean Louise Finch, her elder brother was Jeremy Finch and their farther was Atticus Finch. The story run from when the girl was 7 to 9, and her brother was 4 years older than her. The befriended a boy named Dill, who lived in his aunt’s house, next door to theirs in the summer, and who swore to marry Scout when they grew up. Their father was a middle-aged, respected lawyer in town and their mother passed away when Scout was 2 years old. The family had a housekeeper named Calpurnia (Cal for short), who according to their father, was more educated than most colored folks. Cal would discipline the kids, and according to Atticus, she was strict with them, instead of indulging them like most colored folks. Part 1 depicted an everyday life of the family and the neighbors. The free and idle afternoon in the yard playing games and the rising curiosity of the house of the reclusive Mr. Arther “Boo” Radley, who few had seen or would want to talk about made up the childhood summertime.
art 2 started with conflict of Scout with schoolmate Cel(？) for mocking her father of defending for a black person, and calling him “nigger-lover”. During that time, Atticus was representing Tom Robinson, a black male, who was accused of raping a white female, Mayella Ewell. The case was mentioned occasionally and gradually by the small talk here and there, mostly by people’s accusation, despise, disapproval, and doubt. It felt like the entire town didn’t approve of what Atticus was doing: defending a black suspect. (Later in the book we would know that there were people who deep down believed the innocence of Tom Robinson, Miss Maudie, and Judge Taylor, The Cunningham’s after a change of attitudes.) Atticus’s attitudes for gossip were generous: let them say whatever they want. The town folks were free to have their own opinions. (Later in the book we know from Aunt Alexandra that “the case was tearing him apart”. It is imaginable how big pressure the protagonist could be under due to this case.)
However, the whole truth of the case didn’t reveal until the trial on a hot summer afternoon. The kids disobeyed their father’s order went to the trial and found no seats, so they went to the 2nd balcony, the colored balcony at Reverend Sykes’s invitation. The trial started with witness, Mr. Heck Tate (or sb.), testifying that when he saw Mayella, she looked beaten and taken advantage of. Next was accuser town drunk Mr. Ewell, the father of the claimed victim, asserted that he’d seen her daughter insulted by the defendant Tom Robinson when he got back home. In cross examination, Atticus showed cleverly by letting Mr. Ewell write to show the jury that he’s left-handed and that he was an uneducated, violent, unreasonable, pathetic man living in a pig house. The main accuser, Mayella, was the white girl who claimed to be raped by Tom Robinson. She said they went into the room, and the defendant hurt her, controlled her and then raped her. The court had went to a rage at this moment hearing these words. In cross examination, Atticus had lead and established the life of the girl and her father, and showed they were lying.
Tom Robinson was the last witness. He showed the court that he had lost the usage of his left hand due to a tragic accident when he was a boy, putting his strength to control the girl and rape her into a reasonable doubt. He also claimed that Mayella made sexual advances to him. He got frightened, and managed to get out of the room as Mr. Ewell got back. During the cross examination performed by the opposing lawyer Mr. XX, Dill, couldn’t help it and went out of the courtroom to cry where he and Scout went across Mr. XX, a white man who married a black wife with many mixed children. The town folks say he must be drinking whiskey all the time to get through this life, which was proven to be fake when he offered Dill his bottle: it was no whiskey inside but coke. Why would he do that？ Otherwise people wouldn’t believe that’s the life he wanted to live, chose to live. He understood when Dill said he couldn’t bear the way the lawyer questioned Tom Robinson: “it’s not right.”
It took hours for the jury to come to their final decision, which gave time for the children to go home to eat. (We would know later in the book that even the time consumed had implied a more careful decision, though the result didn’t make any difference). Despite significant evidence of Tom’s innocence, the 12 jury all voted for guilty. Tom was convicted.
Atticus didn’t give up. He said they’d appeal and they had a good case. But some day after the trial, Tom Robinson tried to escape in the prison yard and was shot dead by the policemen. 17 shots on his body. Atticus said deep down he probably wouldn’t believe he’d be sentenced innocent. The tragic message was sent to Helen Robinson, his wife, by Atticus, with the help of Cal. Helen fell over the second she heard the news. The way she fell, as if she was trodden by a giant’s toe.
After Tom Robinson’s death the days moved on and there were more contradictions the kids would face in life. For one thing, during a news telling training, Scout’s teacher, Miss XX, claimed that what happened in Germany was not right, it was dictatorship what Hitler was running. But here in America, what they have is Democracy. Miss XX asked the class what democracy was and Scout answered: “equal legal rights for everyone.” And Miss XX was content with the answer. Back at home Scout asked his brother Jem, why is it different for Tom Robinson, for the colored folks, if the persecuting of Jews is not right？ His brother freaked out and shouted, “Don’t talk to me about anything related to the court on that day.” It was how Jem acted after the failed trial, and Tom Robinson’s death. Atticus said it would take time for him get it over.
Like it or not, the Finch life was still under the affection of the trial. There were occasional threats from Mr. Ewell. This case destroyed Mr. Ewell’s credibility if he had any to begin with and he swore revenge. He spat Atticus on the face, broke into Judge Taylor’s house when he thought it was empty, followed and menaced Tom’s widow Helen Robinson until he was stopped by Mr. Link, Tom Robinson’s former employer. Then on Halloween night, high on alcohol, he followed Jem and Scout home after Scout’s pageant and tried to hurt them. Jem noticed they were being followed and there came a hustle of a fight in the dark. It was then that a man had come to the kids’ rescue and carried them home where Atticus had just heard Scout shouting for help and hurried to the porch.
They put Jem (he broke one arm and was unconscious) on bed and Atticus called for the sheriff Mr. Heck Tate and Dr. Reynolds. The sheriff came in, declaring the death of Mr. Ewell which was done by a stab of knife in his chest. After Atticus and the sheriff heard Scout’s deｓｃｒｉｐｔion, and everyone noticed the hero standing in the corner of the room was the mysterious Arther “Boo” Radley, they had a serious discussion on what to make of the situation. Atticus intended to let his son take the blame of killing Mr. Ewell out of self-defense. He was strongly objected by the sheriff: “Mr. Ewell fell on the knife, killed by himself. That’s it.” Atticus eventually accepted the sheriff’s story. Sheriff knew that if it’s any other man, it’ll be different. But you let neighbors bury an extremely shy man with baskets of flowers and fruits？ That’s not right. Scout escorted Boo Radley home at front gate, and never saw him again.
o Tom Robinson died. Mr. Ewell died. One life for one.
I feel bad for writing these quoted “racial epithet” in the article.
The finale was good for two reasons: there came a price for Tom’s sacrifice, though not a merciful or pleasant one. Another was the mystery in childhood was solved and buried forever, in other words, saved forever. Scout’s seen the mysterious man for herself and he was a hero who saved her and her brother. He’s also a silent hero which made the honor even more precious and exciting than a famous and beloved hero.