Mary Murphy has just produced what looks like a fascinating documentary about Harper Lee and the impact of her one great work, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The movie is unspooling around the country right now — opening in New York this Friday — and the Los Angeles Times has a preview:
Harper Lee was working as an airline reservations agent in New York City, struggling to write a novel tentatively titled “Atticus,” when a close friend gave her enough money to take time off and finish her book. Published in 1960 with an initial print run of just 5,000 copies, “To Kill a Mockingbird” became an instant phenomenon: a critically acclaimed bestseller andPulitzer Prize winner, followed by a multiple-Oscar-winning 1962 film featuring the iconic performance of Gregory Peck as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch.
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When quotes start a sentence, is there a separate type of "quote starter" that ends a streak?
why do the children call their father Atticus instead of dad?
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It is never really clear, my take has always been that he treats them like little adults by reasoning with them rather than disciplining them, therefore they treat him more like a peer than a dad.
What do you think?
When quotes start a sentence, is there a separate type of "quote starter" that ends a streak?
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