Of Mice and Men or Mockingbird?

[Mark]

My class chose Mockingbird, me along side them, to study for my English lit. Which is better in your opinion? My teacher likes Mockingibrd.

[Darkthoughts]

Hmm, I've reread To Kill A Mockingbird many times, although we didn't do it for GCSE, we did Of Mice And Men - and I've not read that since.

However, that probably says more about how studying a book in class can detract from its enjoyment, as opposed to reading it for and by yourself.

[obscurejude]

Scout (Ka Tet) is a huge Mocking Bird fan. Hopefully he can let you in on some of the magic.

[Unfound One]

:lol: I knew you would go there Ryan.

[CyberGhostface]

Well, I haven't read Mice yet, but I have read Mockingbird and I thought that was a very good book. But from what I have read about it, I'd still probably like Mockingbird better. So out of the two, I'd choose that.

[Mark]

Dean (Scout(Ka tet)) speaks to be on msn of his love of it all the time :lol:

[obscurejude]

:lol: I knew you would go there Ryan.

I couldn't resist.

Mark, is his screen name loveforscout19 or something like that?

[Mark]

Close, but no cigar.

{Dexan}{Diin}{Dekaani}{Dean, I dont like people, they fuck me up }-"If ka will say so, let it be so...."-I love you so much Joss

It's that.

[obscurejude]

Close, but no cigar.

{Dexan}{Diin}{Dekaani}{Dean, I dont like people, they fuck me up }-"If ka will say so, let it be so...."-I love you so much Joss

It's that.

I really wasn't too close. You guys really seem like some cool high schoolers, and that means a lot coming from me. I usually deplore your kind.

For my part, I enjoyed Mice and Men, but I think a good teacher can make either of the books intriguing on a number of levels.

[Mark]

My teacher is cool, and he's just left high school.

[obscurejude]

My teacher is cool, and he's just left high school.

I'm excited to hear about what kind of teachers are stage right high school.

[fernandito]

"And I"ll get to tend them rabbits!"

[Ricky]

Mockingbird is an excellent read. I read it a couple years ago. I think that you'll enjoy it.

[jayson]

I personally prefer To Kill a Mockingbird, though I think both are good books.

[turtlex]

Both books are excellent, IMHO.

( caveat - To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my all time favorites )

To study, however, I think To Kill A Mockingbird is the way to go. It covers so much, in a single story ( racism, classism, trust, honor, place, time, etc ) that it's hard to beat.

That said - I first read it in an Advanced Social Studies class, which I found to be very appropriate.

It is an all time American Classic.

Of Mice and Men, though excellent, is very "contained" and exists in it's own small place.

[jhanic]

I love both books and have reread them both within the past year. Of the two, I'd pick To Kill a Mockingbird as the better.

John

[Shamey]

I really enjoyed reading Of Mice and Men. I also remember having a group writing exercise. We had to write a short story about the main characters. My group wrote that Lenny had a dream he was in a room filled with different colored rabbits. Then they all morphed into a giant rabbit that grabbed Lenny and proceeded to pet him to death. Ahh, high school was awesome...

[Ves'Ka Gan]

Oh, I think they are both very goos & both provide a lot of fodder for great class discussion...

I would have hard time chosing between the two, although for class--I guess Of Mice & Men is shorter!

[Daghain]

I have not read Of Mice and Men.

But I am totally in love with To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Ruthful]

I would never pass on an opportunity to read Steinbeck.

I have to be honest and admit that I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird, which is, admittedly, very strange for someone who spent all of his educational career in the American public school system. Ditto for Catcher in the Rye.

[Daghain]

Yeah, try 8 years in Catholic school. The list of what I haven't read is as long as my arm.

And I have a BA in English. :lol:

[Ruthful]

I had tons of friends who went to parochial school-very demented, but fun, people for the most part.

:cyclops:

It's funny, because almost all of the literature I read in college-outside of the standard survey English, Western Civ. and classical literature courses-was American, e.g. Hawthorne, Melville, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Willa Cather, etc. Magaret Laurence too-I suppose a novelist who's Canadian is close enough.

:P

[Jean]

I have not read Of Mice and Men.

But I am totally in love with To Kill a Mockingbird.
same

[Ka-tet]

Scout (Ka Tet) is a huge Mocking Bird fan. Hopefully he can let you in on some of the magic.

I need not say a word....


loveforscout19 haha that one made me laugh, and im gonna put in in there just for you

{Dexan}{Diin}{Dekaani}{Dean, loveforscout19 }-"If ka will say so, let it be so...."-I love you so much Joss.

New and improved version ^.^

[obscurejude]

Scout (Ka Tet) is a huge Mocking Bird fan. Hopefully he can let you in on some of the magic.

I need not say a word....

:lol:

Sorry about giving you a hard time dude. I mean it as a joke. You and Mark are the highschoolers across the pond that make me reconsider being an English teacher.

[Rjeso]

I'd say TKAM has a slight edge over OMAM, but I love them both.

[Ka-tet]

Scout (Ka Tet) is a huge Mocking Bird fan. Hopefully he can let you in on some of the magic.

I need not say a word....

:lol:

Sorry about giving you a hard time dude. I mean it as a joke. You and Mark are the highschoolers across the pond that make me reconsider being an English teacher.

Even if i told you i hate to study english?(sorry ><)

And i enjoy the joke ^.^.

[obscurejude]

Scout (Ka Tet) is a huge Mocking Bird fan. Hopefully he can let you in on some of the magic.

I need not say a word....

:lol:

Sorry about giving you a hard time dude. I mean it as a joke. You and Mark are the highschoolers across the pond that make me reconsider being an English teacher.

Even if i told you i hate to study english?(sorry ><)

And i enjoy the joke ^.^.

Cool. You seem like the kind of students that might really enjoy a young teacher full of radical ideas- even if you didn't like the subject so much to begin with.

[Ka-tet]

Im sure i would.

Anyway school is over for me now, and its off to collage in a few months ^.^. Which im really looking forward to.

[obscurejude]

Im sure i would.

Anyway school is over for me now, and its off to collage in a few months ^.^. Which im really looking forward to.

Ahhh, I remember the lunch lady photo. Congratulations Dean.

[Mark]

Scout (Ka Tet) is a huge Mocking Bird fan. Hopefully he can let you in on some of the magic.

I need not say a word....

:lol:

Sorry about giving you a hard time dude. I mean it as a joke. You and Mark are the highschoolers across the pond that make me reconsider being an English teacher.

Someone like you would make an amazing English teacher. You're so knowledgable and stuff.

[Ves'Ka Gan]

I would never pass on an opportunity to read Steinbeck.

I have to be honest and admit that I've never read To Kill a Mockingbird, which is, admittedly, very strange for someone who spent all of his educational career in the American public school system. Ditto for Catcher in the Rye.
I agree. Stienbeck is one of my favorite authors.

However, you do need to get to the library or book store PRONTO and fix the above stated problem. Both are great books, Mockingbird I think is timeless, although I thinking something is lost on Catcher if you didn't read it as a teenager.

[sarah]

Loved both books very much but if I have to choose, I pick To Kill a Mockingbird.

[The Lady of Shadows]

to kill a mockingbird. definitely.

[Ka-tet]

Im sure i would.

Anyway school is over for me now, and its off to collage in a few months ^.^. Which im really looking forward to.

Ahhh, I remember the lunch lady photo. Congratulations Dean.


Many thanks sai, and i second the motion on you making a good teacher!

[CRinVA]

I just finished re-listening to TKAM like a week ago. I'd forgotten just how much I like that story. OMAM is a good read but not comparable if you ask me. JMHO of course.

[Ricky]

I would never pass on an opportunity to read Steinbeck.


Oh jeeze, I would pass it up in a heartbeat. The Grapes of Wrath was unbearably terrible, IMO. Definitely the worst book I've read.

[The Lady of Shadows]

can't stand steinbeck. hated him in junior high, hated him in high school, hated him in college. of course, that's just me. :orely:

[Jean]

I would never pass on an opportunity to read Steinbeck.

Oh jeeze, I would pass it up in a heartbeat. The Grapes of Wrath was unbearably terrible, IMO.
so was East of Eden. The Winter of Our Discontent was passable, though, and I positively liked Travels with Charley: In Search of America. But certainly none of them compares with To Kill a Mockingbird, which is one of my favorite books ever.

[jayson]

can't stand steinbeck. hated him in junior high, hated him in high school, hated him in college. of course, that's just me. :orely:

it's not just you. i can't stand Steinbeck

[Ricky]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was going to have my head torn off after posting that. :lol:

[razz]

i ain't read of mice and men, but it can't be worse than "Mockingbird". the only thing that can get that award is "The Great Gatsby"

[Ves'Ka Gan]

I would never pass on an opportunity to read Steinbeck.

Oh jeeze, I would pass it up in a heartbeat. The Grapes of Wrath was unbearably terrible, IMO.
so was East of Eden. The Winter of Our Discontent was passable, though, and I positively liked Travels with Charley: In Search of America. But certainly none of them compares with To Kill a Mockingbird, which is one of my favorite books ever.

Oh, now I loved East of Eden. I thought the story was great and the descriptions of the motehr were amazing...but that's me. Hell, I sort of like Grapes.. and I know I stand in the minority on that.

[cozener]

Mockingbird. I'm a huge fan. Even gave my first son the middle name "Atticus" :)

Mice and Men I found hard to get through.

[Girlystevedave]

I recently read To Kill A Mockingbird and thought it was good. I haven't read Of Mice and Men in a while (I need to re-read again) but I enjoyed it much more. A lot more feeling to it I thought.

[turtlex]

I always thought it would be cool to name kids "Gem" and "Scout" ... Until Bruce Willis and Demi Moore named one of their girls "Scout". Bummer!

[cozener]

I always thought it was interesting how Mockingbird is the only book Harper Lee ever wrote and it is now a classic.

[jayson]

Good observation Coz. Not a bad percentage for Ms. Lee.

[Mark]

Harper Lee is a woman?!

[Brice]

yes

[Mark]

I so never knew :lol:

[jhanic]

She also won the Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird.

John

[Zalia]

I had to study both in highschool. To Kill A Mockingbird in grade 9 and Of Mice and Men in grade 10. Out of the 2, To Kill A Mockingbird was much better to do. But, as far as I'm concerned, when you have to read them for a class they get ripped apart way too much and just aren't enjoyable anymore.

[jhanic]

It IS possible to study something to death. That's the trouble with lots of high school and college courses. They insist on analyzing so much they take the pure enjoyment of the work and destroy it. (And I was trained as an English teacher!)

John

[Matticus-Finch]

Damn the system.

[LadyHitchhiker]

Mockingbird... my favorite of the two but I had to read both.

[Poisonbat]

I personally liked both books, but as far as Steinbeck goes, Cannery Row is and will always be my favorite. Of Mice and Men was strangely disturbing and down right sad in my opinion. Mockingbird had a better story line. :unsure: