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'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.
~ Charles J. Shields
Academy
Academy Awards
Adaptation
Appeared
Awarded
Awards
Bestseller
Climbed
Eighty
Favorable
Film
Highly
Lists
Mockingbird
More
Novel
Prize
Pulitzer
Quickly
Received
Released
Remained
Reviews
Than
Three
Top
Weeks
Where
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman.
~ Charles J. Shields
About
Accused
Appointed
Attorney
Been
Black
Brother
Concerns
Defend
Falsely
Father
Girl
Has-Been
Her
Man
Mockingbird
Nine
Older
Older Brother
Point
Really
Robinson
Scout
Second
Slightly
Stories
Story
Tale
Tom
Two
View
White
Who
Woman
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All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
~ Charles J. Shields
Dissolve
Either
Genre
Great
Invent
Literature
Works
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Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.
~ Charles J. Shields
August
Bernard
Born
Boy
Even
Grandfather
He
His
Informal
Little
Named
Photographs
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Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.
~ Charles J. Shields
Behaved
Came
Children
Could
General
Guest
Heading
Her
Household
Like
Lives
Others
Parenting
Pay
She
Tasks
Thinking
Way
Wealthy
Which
Woman
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Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.
~ Charles J. Shields
1920s
About
Age
Became
Began
Both
Each
Expressed
Father
Friends
Gave
Kindergarten
Late
Later
Lee
Loved
Neighbors
Old
Original
Other
Reading
Recognized
Start
Stories
Them
Together
Truman
Truman Capote
Typewriter
Were
Writing
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If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.
~ Charles J. Shields
About
Achievement
Actually
Arrangement
Artistic
Builds
Complexity
Conferred
Convenience
Equally
Honorary
Language
Life
Literary
Matches
Merit
Only
Page
Realism
Reality
Rich
Rules
Safety
Term
Terms
Were
Work
Would
Would-Be
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.
~ Charles J. Shields
Books
Break
Forms
Must
Ready
Serious
Want
Write
You
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In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
~ Charles J. Shields
1990s
Adult
Biographies
Field
Histories
Late
Left
Teaching
Write
Young
Young Adults
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My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.
~ Charles J. Shields
Bombed
Childhood
City
Combine
Experience
Had
Haunted
He
His
Impression
Kurt
Lot
Man
Pain
Pile
Saw
Theory
Things
Those
Top
Two
Very
War
World
World War
World War II
You
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On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.
~ Charles J. Shields
Anything
Breakfast
Champions
Could
He
Indeed
Lists
Make
Money
Proving
Publish
Reputation
Spent
Strength
Year
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The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
~ Charles J. Shields
Article
Business
Carrying
Criticism
English
English Teacher
First
His
Lighthearted
Purchasing
School
Sophomore
Submitted
Teacher
Urging
Whistle
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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.
~ Charles J. Shields
Because
Encourages
Fiction
Grain
Indirect
Less
Life
More
Open
Permits
Precisely
Self-Knowledge
Speculative
Texture
Than
Traditional
Vital
Way
Work
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