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    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

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    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

    Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for playing Atticus Finch in the 1962 film version of the book.

    This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

    Millions of high school students have read "To Kill a Mockingbird." The novel by Harper Lee offers moral lessons about racial justice and respect. It tells the story of a young girl named Scout and her father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer. He defends a black man wrongfully accused of raping a white woman. In the end, an all-white jury sentences Tom Robinson to death.

    The book is set in the American South in the 1930s. But it was published 50 years ago, on July 11th, 1960. It came out as the civil rights movement in the United States was gaining strength. Laws and customs in the South, however, still kept blacks and whites mostly separated.

    A mockingbird is a kind of gray songbird. The book gets its title from something Atticus Finch was told in his childhood when his father gave him a gun. Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for the 1962 film version.

    ATTICUS FINCH: "I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them. But remember, it was a sin to kill a mockingbird."

    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

    Harper Lee in a rare public appearance in 2007.

    Killing them is a sin, he explains, because they don't hurt anyone, they just make music. And that is the moral of the story, says Melinda Byrd-Murphy, head of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts.

    She has read the book four times.

    MELINDA BYRD-MURPHY: "I think if anything, this story talks about humanity and the universality of humans and how there's goodness in people and you just have to get to know one another."

    Ms. Byrd-Murphy is a native of Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville. The author, who published only the one novel, is still alive but rarely speaks publicly.

    Some people say "To Kill a Mockingbird" treats racism in a way that is simplistic, even offensive to blacks, and out of date in today's America. Still, it has been translated into more than 40 languages and has sold over 40 million copies. It won a Pulitzer Prize and is often required reading in high school.

    The story takes place in a town that Harper Lee called Maycomb. But she based the characters on real people she knew growing up.

    Since then, Monroeville has changed a lot. A number of African-Americans serve in the local government. The courthouse, made famous by the book, is now a museum. A small shop and a fast-food restaurant called Mel's Dairy Dream have replaced Harper Lee's childhood home.

    But in Monroeville and around the country, fans of "To Kill a Mockingbird" are celebrating its 50th anniversary. Events include readings, discussions and movie showings.

    And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, with reporting by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch. I'm Steve Ember.

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    (來源:VOA 編輯:陳丹妮)

     
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