Name: The real reason To Kill A Mockingbird became so famous
Uploaded: 2018-05-23T21:01:02.000Z
Duration: 5 min 28 s
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The second conditional

Basic passive voice

“Can you, uh...can you read and write?”

Wait, Atticus, let me explain, let me explain.

I read this book for fun in fourth grade.

I lived in Tennessee, thought it was amazing,

even though I probably didn't understand it.

I had read this book six times. Six times.

I think there's a surprising reason it's so famous.

To understand why this book was a school staple,

Like the illicit love in The Hangman's Whip.

When Harper Lee got To Kill A Mockingbird

“My reaction to it was not one of surprise,

It got a good review in the New York Times

(though it earned less coverage than “Ceremony

But let's be clear: it sold millions of copies in hardback.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961.

well, I don't know why they're posing like that,

So this book was a big critical and popular hit.

And it wasn't the best selling book of the year.

that 1961 Pulitzer Prize isn't the prize.

It's from Penguin Books, and it's familiar

The idea was to print good books, in paperback,

That revolution quickly spread to America

Suddenly, cheap books flooded dime stores,

By 1961, the New York Times was calling it

The books were actually being used...in schools.

That's where To Kill A Mockingbird comes in.

Popular Library published that, and in 1962

they also put out the mass market paperback

Paperbacks were finally coming into their own.

And To Kill A Mockingbird had perfect timing.

publishers thought of education as El Dorado.

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