Was listening to the fabled NPR this weekend...driving to an estimate or something. Lady reviewer said the story read like a sequel to TKAM, took a dim view of Atticus, gone was the Atticus she had known...said she thought initially that Atticus in the courtroom was...up to his old tricks, something along that line, and instead he let her down. Big sad times, big sad tears. I thought the lady who wrote TKAM was prescient...what with the attitude at the end of the book toward what we have come to call trash. Bashing the trash was acceptable by story end in TKAM and it is acceptable in our society today. I'm curious about Atticus from what the NPR lady was whining about. A story is a story. If someone puts their left shoe on first, who am I to quibble? It's a story! I liked the idea of a "hot steam"...somebody who can't get to heaven, just wallows around on lonesome roads...the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. And I think there were events placed at the end of TKAM to make a statement. Treasure the bad. Like what one asks? LLike the ladies gathered and concerning themselves w/missionary zeal...the Mronos, or some group in...never says...Africa, presumably...and then the bit about Hitler, current events day at school...contrived...there to make the fabled statement.