Day 325

I was flipping around on the tv looking for something to watch and I couldn't believe it, To Kill a Mockingbird was just starting. I don't even mind that there are commercials, it's such a good movie. In fact to me it is the best movie I have seen. And as is usual the book is better, I love the book enough to have read it at least 15 times, possibly more. For a while I would read it every summer vacation. I'm not sure why I like it, there is no action, no great love story, no vampires, none of that nonsense. It is just a book about a single father trying to teach his kids about tolerance and honor. In fact that father, Atticus Finch, was voted the greatest hero of the movies of the past 100 years. He didn't need massive guns or explosions to save the world, just his principles.

"If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." -Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird