This is about a book To Kill A Mckingbird. Why were the childern fascinated with the Radly House?
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When you were growing up, wasn't there a neighbor that you had that all the kids had stories about?  That person/house is evil?  That's pretty normal to have (we had one in our neighborhood... guy who would kill you if you walked through his woods...or so we told each other, of course he was probably a perfectly nice guy... but these stories happen).  That's who Boo is.  Also, I think that Boo is a "mockingbird"... symbolically (so is the defendant).  There are several.  Dill dares Jem to run up an touch the door.  Hope that helps.
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Because they're narrow-minded and stupid. I've read the book too (and I'm CATHOLIC for Christ's sake) and I agree that it is a lovely piece of FICTION. If they can't see that, then I feel very sorry for your friends because they are missing out on a wonderful book.
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This is the first I have heard of this book..... from the article sounds like it would be a great book for kids.   Why people would be bothered by this book is truly puzzling, I mean honestly it's a book for kids so they can understand at their level about illegal immigration.  This just made the shopping list for gifts.\nGood post DAR.
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Those parts of the novel have been ommited.  The church decreed that if their home-boy's crib was known, that poeple would try to seek it out.
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In Coupeville Washington there is a haunted house.  I used to know the woman that lived there.\n\nYears ago an old woman lived there, two sailors broke into her home and found her there and killed her.\n\nThe woman I know who lived in it until recently said there were strange things that went on like she would hear footsteps and doors opening and closing.  There are pictures taken in the house that have typical blurry figures and faces in the fireplace.  The creepiest thing I think about the house is that there is a spot on one of the walls that looks like a scarry face.  This woman wisely put up a picture over the face to hide it (she has two young boys).  After a little while though the same creepy face appeared IN THE PICTURE she hung over the wall!\n\nThe Captain Whidbey Inn near Coupeville is also haunted, as is my parent's house and the houses of two of my good friends.  It's a cute but creepy town (a friend of mine who moved up there from LA said it looked like a town from a horror movie or that show Small Town X... Practical Magic and The Ring were filmed there).  \n\nIf you visit and are looking to get the willies, also head out to the forts at Camp Casey... they can be a little creepy at times, winding corrodors in pitch black and everything echos.  Now I think they are pretty fun but as a kid I got really spooked by them.
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I read that book, and I also read the 2 that followed it...\n\nI found the book to be very good, although disturbing. I was at work when I read it. I started at 9 am, and didn't put it down until I finished it. \n\nWhat I liked about it:\n\nI didn't like the fact that a child had to endure that abuse, but what I did like about it was the fact that I know without a shadow of a doubt that my children are not abused. I am happy about the fact that my children know they will have a full stomach, they can eat when they are hungry, and that they know they have a mother that loves them and would never harm them. I also like that "David" could grow to have a son of his own and know that he would never put his son through what his own mother put him through. Glad that he could grow to have a normal, happy life.
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This is probably my favourite story from childhood, but it wasn't a big hit (in which case, you'd have Redcap Runs Away by Rhoda Power = A boy wanderer chappy's our draw). In fact, it seems that almost nobody else has even heard of it.
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The griffins are warlike Kit, artistic Callette, gentle Don, gourmet-chef Lydda, and talkative Elda, the baby of the family.\n\nThe main part of this novel is how Derk and his family (his 2 natural children and the 5 griffins) work together to try to keep the tours, which they hate passionately, going smoothly...even though more and more things go wrong all the time. People are sabotaging the tour thinking that they're helping Derk end the tours (and that includes his most trusted assistant). Meanwhile Derk's family is trying to keep the tours on track, thinking that if they fail, they personally and their world generally will be ruined.\n\nIt's a very exciting novel!!
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It was originally a FANTASY book by C. S. Lewis for CHILDREN.\nAlthough there's a lot of symbolism used, it's mostly character symbolism and not object symbolism. It's obvious that there was no intent for the fawn to represent satan -- if he were supposed to do that, he wouldn't have been forgiven in the end.
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well, you have to understand that the book itself is not about magic/witchcraft. It is about a boy who is accepted into a private school and must pass many trials and fight many evils to protect the people and ideals he loves from harm. If you really think about it, all he is trying to do is stop the man who killed his parents from killing more people. The only thing that really makes it diferent from any other murder mystery novel is the obstacles (both external and internal) he must overcome and the means he has to overcome them. \n\nNow, when you look at it that way,... is it really that bad? It's not teaching kids to worship Satan. It's not teaching them that God doesnt exist. It's not teaching them to turn a book into a rat, or to follow a different religious path. (simply because there are people who become obsessed with it, doesnt mean that everyone does. it is a series. if you have read one book in a series, and liked it, wouldnt YOU like to see how it ends?) It is simply a means to entertain your child or even yourself. It DOES teach the value of friendship. It DOES teach that you should be loyal to your ideals, to your friends, and most of all, to yourself.\n\nNOW do you still have a problem with it? Isn't it better to think about things rather than assume that because it has magic in it, it is wrong?
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There was a jigsaw there for me to do, and it was about Old Mother Hubbard, you know, the one in the nursery rhyme, who went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone. When I finished that, I noticed that Mummy was no longer there, but it really did not matter, because this place was all different and interesting to me - a brand new world, with lots of games and puzzles that I did not have at home. What's more, there were three other boys there who were also called David. Now how was that for cool?
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I wish I could tell you.  As a child I would always be in the backseat of my parents car as we drove past this one home and it was a victorian, beautiful home and I knew where each room was and what was where in every room.  It wasnt until years later I showed my parents in a book that had just been published of the local area century homes... the rooms, the furniture were all as I described.  I always had the strange sense that I had been there and yet I learned the home was abandoned for many years.  I cant tell you why although I have been told that in some time in an earlier existence I had been in that home and yet, to believe such a thing is to test my own sanity...\n\nHope you get your answers.
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There is an obvious vilian in the story\nthere is horror especially  at the end of the book\nThe book has some dark moments a white women fasely accusing a black man of rape when actually it was her father\nI can't remember her name the lady who Scout read to it reminded me of Miss Havisham  in Great Expectations -Gothic novel\nto kill a mocking bird- Edgar Allen Poe the "Raven" another Gothic story there are some cahracteristics in both\nI think there are some supernatural events in the book particularly around  “Boo” Radley
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First of all, the book is not about penguins. I know the characters are penguins, but the book is about two men who raise a child. \n\nThe only people who are scared of this are people who feel the need to be overly PC, or people who have religious reservations about gay marriage. I understand that the book never directly speaks of gay marriage, but that is the way people interpret the book. \n\nI don't know what religious beliefs you may hold, but if one of your  most treasured and firmly held beliefs was threatend in the form of a childrens book, you may raise some eybrows.\n\n\nTha being said, the US needs to learn that times, people, and beliefs are changing.
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Muze Annotations\nThe beloved author of such classic children's books as "Henry Huggins" and "Dear Mr. Henshaw" tells of her early life in Oregon, first on the family farm in Yamhill, and later in Portland during the Depression. Readers will learn about the childhood of the creator of Ramona, and find parts of her life that made their way into her books.\n\n\nPublisher's Notes\nGenerations of children have grown up with Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and all of their friends, families, and assorted pets. For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, and all of the other poignant and colorful images of childhood brought to life in Beverly Cleary books, here is the fascinating true story of the remarkable woman who created them.\n\n\nSynopses\nFollows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing.
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"The sliding-door of the railway truck closed with a deafening bang."\n\nSo begins Alice's journey. But where is she going? The men who come to her house to take Alice and her grandparents away in the middle of the night will say only that they are being taken "to the east." At first Alice is excited - at last she will be allowed to play outside after being confined to the basement for so long, and maybe she will be reunited with her parents. But the train ride isn't at all what Alice expects. There are no seats or lavatories - only a dark, airless cattle car crammed with people. And as she gets to know her follow passengers, Alice's eyes are opened to the facts of life, the horrors of death and the terrifying truth about her final destination.
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It's short and to the point. The pain comes through uncomfortably. \n\nIt leaves no doubt about what it's about, yet leaves a lot to the imagination. I'm assuming the author meant to make the reader feel something, especially pain, grief and loss.  If so, they accomplished their goal. \n\nI'm interested in the "weird" book you found it in. What book?