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Originally Posted by gee_ess
For those of you comparing TKAM with Grisham, TKAM is not supposed to be riveting courtroom drama. It is about prejudice - on a variety of levels not just racial. That is what makes it good subject matter for students.
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It's also what makes it a pretty mediocre book, from the standpoint of pure artistic merit - the comparison between prejudging a reclusive neighbor and higher-order racial prejudice is pretty facile, and using both selfishness and "BAD THINGS DUN DUN DUHHHHH" as illustrative/turning points is pretty 2-dimensional.
Again, it's a good book for kids to read, and if you're going to force books onto people (which sucks), it's probably in the top quarter - but it just isn't transcendent literature.