Michael Gerson writes that “Lord of the Flies” gives kids a picture of the bullying they experience and “To Kill a Mockingbird” the courage to stand up to it.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged bullying, Education, Harper Lee, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, William Golding, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Analyzing Loughner’s Booklist

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2011

Like much of America, I am still in a state of shock over Saturday’s shooting of a Congresswoman, a judge, and 16 others. Like many I wonder if this was an example of a disturbed mind encountering the inflamed political rhetoric that has come to characterize American political discourse. (Add Arizona’s permissive gun laws into […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Adolph Hitler, Aesop, Aldous Huxley, Alice through the Look Glass, Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Arizona killings, Ayn Rand, Brave New World, Charles Bukowski, Communist Manifesto, Ernest Hemingway, Fables, Fahrenheit 451, Gulliver's Travels, Harper Lee, Hermann Hesse, Homer, James Barrie, Jared Lee Loughner, Jonathan Swift, Karl Marx, Ken Kesey, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Mein Kampf, Meno, nimal Farm, Norton Juster Phentom Tollbooth, Odyssey, Old Man and the Sea, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Peter Pan, Plot, Pulp, Ray Bradbury, Reading George Orwell, Republic, Siddhartha, violence, We the Living, Wizard of Oz | Comments closed

Lives Impacted by Film, Part II

By Robin Bates | Published: December 17, 2010

Film Friday Last Friday I reported that Julia and I were on our way to a dinner with our film group and that we had an assignment: to come up with 3-5 films and explain how they had impacted our lives. The evening was a smashing success, and I recommend the idea to others. […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Accused, Bonnie and Clyde, Camelot, Cinderella, Deer Hunter, Departures, Desperately Seeking Susan, Film, Harlan County USA, Haunted House, High Anxiety, Jules and Jim, King and I, Matewan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Sound of Music, Virgin Spring, Yellow Submarine | Comments closed

On Obama, Lincoln, and Compromise

By Robin Bates | Published: December 13, 2010

Saturday’s New York Times had a column by African American novelist Ishmael Reed attacking those leftists that are excoriating President Obama for his willingness to extend the Bush tax cuts in return for a second stimulus package. What particularly galls Reed is that many of these critics refer to themselves as Obama’s base (as in, […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Barack Obama, Flight to Canada, Harper Lee, Ishmael Reed, politics, racism | Comments closed

Mockingbird, Powerful but Problematic

By Robin Bates | Published: July 8, 2010

Harper Lee National Public Radio reminded me yesterday that this summer is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I have written a couple of times about the book, once talking about its importance to me growing up in the segregated south and once examining Malcolm Gladwell’s critique of […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Harper Lee, Malcolm Gladwell, Race, racism | Comments closed

How Racism Sullies Everything

By Robin Bates | Published: August 13, 2009

If race has been the subject of these past two weeks of posting it is because, as a Sherrilyn Ifil article notes in the on-line publication Root, we are having a hard time talking about race this summer, what with the furor over the Sonia Sotomayor nomination and the Henry Louis Gates affair. I haven’t […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Aphra Behn, Harper Lee, Oroonoko, racism, slavery | Comments closed

Tag Archives: To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s White Liberal Fantasy

The White Liberal in Civil Rights Lit

America’s Avian Maestro, the Mockingbird

Teaching Kids to Stand Up to Bullies

Analyzing Loughner’s Booklist

Lives Impacted by Film, Part II

On Obama, Lincoln, and Compromise

Mockingbird, Powerful but Problematic

How Racism Sullies Everything

Search

Pages

Categories

Archives

Blogroll

RSS Feeds

Meta