So once upon a time we were in literature class and I tap my friend and say, "I need a phrase that describes the way Atticus' goes ahead with the trial with full enthusiasm even though he knows he's going to lose." Without losing a beat that smart bastard spits out, "fatalistic resignation". I haven't forgotten it in 20 years.

I died because I remember that Calpurnia said " If he wants to eat the table cloth you let him"

My favorite thing my 11th grade teacher pointed out to us was the women who were trying to 'save' those Africans, saying how uncivilized they were, how they didn't know the fathers of the children so the whole village raised them. My teacher said if the people of Maycomb raised the children together as the 'uncivilized Africans' did, the Ewell children wouldn't be dirty, covered in lice and uneducated. It wouldn't have taken Mayella weeks to gather a few nickles just to get the kids ice cream. She said every society is uncivilized in its own way and the abandoning of the Ewell children was one example of Maycomb's uncivil-ness.

Out of all the fictional men in all the books I've ever read, I think Atticus Finch is the one I admire the most. His unshakable integrity is something I wish I could live up to.

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the scene where Scout does become comfortable with the notion of femininity and that it is not inherently bad, only different. And that the women around her, including Calpurnia, do give her insight to what it means to be 'ladylike' without actually telling her, and she can do that when she's good and ready for it (because let's face it, she puts her overalls back on and runs around with the boys again anyway.) If you're going to talk about gender, it's a pretty important scene.

In my opinion, Atticus was the mockingbird. If you research mockingbirds, you'll find that they are docile creatures until their neat is threatened. When I found that, I could only think of Atticus. If it was up to him, he wouldn't harm a fly, but if Jem and Scout are in danger, he would do whatever it takes. Take the scene with Tim Johnson for example. Atticus didn't take pride in his shooting skills because he believed he was more than just a good shooter, so he decided to hide it. However, when he fears his neighborhood may get hurt, he steps up to the plate. Over all, Atticus is just an amazingly well written character and will forever be one of my favorites.

I JUST NOW REALIZED THAT JOHN GREEN WAS THE SAME JOHN GREEN WHO IS AN AUTHOR. 😳 face palm

I'm actually watching this because I like it. Not because of studying or school. 😂😂😂

Wait, this is the guy who wrote The Fault in Our Stars?????? Mind blown.

ugh they need to keep doing crash course literature

In English class we discussed how Mayella could also be seen as a mockingbird. While she does ultimately do harm, all she really wants is affection, and she is "shot" by unfortunate circumstances and her abusive father, for which there is no justification. She is a victim - not quite an innocent victim, but a victim nonetheless.

“Scout I don’t want to cast dispersions but that’s literally the definition of communism.” That quote is amazing. I laughed so hard

For me, the most touching scene in the movie adaptation was when the Blacks stood up when Atticus Finch left the courtroom. For me, it was not the respect that they paid that touched me but the manner in which Atticus Finch left the room. It tells me that he felt guilty and ashamed that, he could not save that innocent man's life. I guess it appeals to me because although humans have gone so far in issues like slavery and discrimination against race, religion, gender and sexual preferences, we still have so far to go. For instance. The killing and torture of animals for food. The destruction of their natural habitats and probably many other issues that I am still too naive to see. The guilt and shame I felt for being part of it allows me to empathize with the moment Atticus Finch left the room. The mocking bird in the title to me represents Atticus Finch. He is the man who who sings the ''truth''. To try to live his life in the right way in an unjust society but instead of being rewarded, he put his loved ones lives in danger. Since to kill his children's life is to kill him, thus the title ''to kill a mocking bird.'' Society's punishment for people who speak up for what is right in a society does wrong.

I would love a Crash Course on Fahrenheit 451.

anyone doing last minute finals studying?

I shall use this knowledge to pass my English midterm. THANK YOU.

At 10:38, John Green mentioned that it could also be Katniss Everdeen. Who laughed/smiled at this one?

Good luck to everyone who has their English Literature Unit 1 exam tomorrow...

"That's what makes it endearing, but also what makes it enduring." After the second it took me to parse this, I smiled one of the biggest smiles I've smiled in a while.

This is the the winter of our discontent. Made glorious summer by this sun of Green.

In which John Green teaches you MORE about To Kill a Mockingbird. In this installment, John teaches you about race, class, and gender in the American south, as seen through the eyes of Scout and Harper Lee. John will talk about how Scout learns about these aspects of the social order as she interacts with the people of the town, learns from Calpurnia, watches the trial of Tom Robinson, and endures the attack of Bob Ewell. You'll also learn a little bit about Demi Moore and Mila Kunis, and John will ask just who is the Mockingbird, anyway? Not that he'll answer that, but he'll ask it. Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird: Crash Course Literature 211

Good Luck to any GCSE English Lit students!

This novel was a major part of my life. I remember distinctively my mother sitting on the couch next to me watching the film version. She always watches old movies so I didn't pay attention the first half hour. But when the court scene came up, I closed my computer and paid full attention on how elegantly and courageously Atticus Finch delivered his speech. I was blown away, and honestly it's what started my adventure towards classic novels. Also what started my fascination with society, and led me to my love of psychology.

Film adaptations often don't work because movies have to follow a weirdly specific formula or audiences get bored, and shoehorning a novel into that formula can mangle it.

Eat your cheetos with a tooth pick.

What if killing the mockingbird isn't literal, so much as figurative? Maybe it's not literally killing, but causing needless pain, whether for your amusement or otherwise. Take how the children treated Arthur Radley, mocking and taunting him because of their fear of him, and how close they (and Atticus) were to putting him in the limelight of the town. Maybe the sin is tormenting the man who has done nothing but try his hardest to protect them throughout the book.

John I cannot thank you enough for this... Our English teacher assigned this book and a project about the themes and stuff and refuses to discuss it with us... You rock and totally are saving my grade!! Thanks so much! (I read the book, you just helped me understand the deeper themes and such).

Perfect use of Bran.

I find the ending of this really beautiful... but that makes me really wonder about John's opinion on Go Set a Watchman. I have many conflicting emotions about it.

What does Atticus like to drink when he goes to a bar? Tequila Mockingbird.

Probably the best analysis of this book I’ve ever heard

really been enjoying this series, thank you everyone at Crash Course

"Could also be Katniss Everdeen." XD

Finally! Someone is talking about Calpurnia. I don't think that one can have an adequate discussion of "To Kill a Mockingbird" without bringing in Calpurnia. She is the mother figure to Atticus' father figure and we can't understand where Scout is coming from with out seeing Calpurnia's influence over her and Jem.

I'm cramming a bunch of these in the night before my AP Literature exam as a review for the FRQ's, thank you guys for making these.

I totally agree! To Kill a Mockingbird's adaptation was the best movie-film I've seen :) I am seriously considering naming my son Atticus

Read this in the 8th grade but my teacher never when this deep into the book. I like this view of the book

My girlfriend wants you to know that the cartoon me in the end looks better than I do (joke). I love you too Crash Course.

In 11 minutes you have explained this book to me so well that I'm actually interested in rereading this book after my freshman English teacher spent a good 10 days worth of classes killing this book and taking out any imaginative thoughts I might've had about it.

Wow, at 0:14 and 0:21 there's Bran! Awesome idea! I truly can't stop smiling^^ Please continue your great work, y'all! :)

Remedy for cheeto-fingers: eat with chopsticks! you're welcome, Jhon's books ;)

Mr Green Mr Green! Please do a crash course on The Crucible and Animal Farm! It would help me lots with the prescribed books at school

I read this book already, but thank you so much for doing it. When I read this book in English class it helped me understand other people, the influences of them and the lives they lead. And when you talk about these stories so passionately, it renews that spirit of reading. These videos should seriously get more views

this is so especially helpful for incoming freshman who can benefit from someone explaining the themes of the story that require background. i have to write reports on different areas in this novel and i found it quite inspiring to watch this and the other tkam video to find discussion topics to write about. when you explained different things about the novel and talked about them, it got my own ideas and opinions flowing and i was able to write down what i thought about the things you were talking about. for that i'd like to thank you. creative/writing inspiration is the greatest gift that i could receive from anyone or anything.

OMG, Google installed an option to further speed up videos to at least 2X normal speed. Crash Course has turned into Super Crash Course for those brave enough to tread those waters.

The wrong captions were uploaded (I think from a previous episode?) >_> Fortunately John (and Hank) Green are among those that I can easily understand without captions. Just wanted to point it out.

This got me an A on an essay! (Which is a miracle in regards to my previous English marks) It was so insightful, concise and easy to take in. Thanks so so so so soooo much crash course! I wish I could give everyone who works there a kiss on the cheek!

I read To Kill a Mockingbird in 8th grade, and I completely overlooked everything about it. I don't know, it's not that I didn't like it, but I didn't really understand the plot, or I didn't appreciate it at the time, because I had to read it for my English class (I didn't read it for pleasure.) But now, 2 years later, watching this video gives me new insights. I think I might read it again. Thanks Crash Course!!

MILA KUNIS IS NOT OLD, YOU TAKE THAT BACK

I could have used this a week ago when I did my English exam partly on To Kill a Mockingbird...

watching this for english assignment lets go!

What a gem this channel is!!! Thank you 😊

I love the game if thrones reference in the beginning

I only just realised that you went through your entire Jane Eyre video without mentioning that there's a character called John Green!!!!!

Thank you for making this video! This and part one was really helpful for me to review the book after reading it.

Great video, guys! We just finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird in class. Great book.

wow my eight grade class just finish reading this book

WEB duBois' book THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK is one of my favorites of all time!

I just felt like i needed to point out the closed captioning is incorrect. Looks like it is the one from the first part of To Kill a Mockingbird. Excellent show and i really enjoyed all of the points made. Thank you John and the rest of you hard working souls.

one of my favorite books! thanks John!

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit em. But remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

I never thought that any one person in the book was 'the mockingbird' rather it is about the act itself. To kill a mockingbird is an act of spite that harms many people and profits no one and I think there are several in the book. Its that bewildered felling of why would anyone do such a thing. Compared say to Atticus shooting the dog which is also sad but necessary.

Thanks thought bubble for putting that slight 101st airborne reference in for the Little Rock 9!

These two videos are probably going to keep me from failing my English class, so thank you, CrashCourse!

it has to be bran in the quote thingy

If you (and Harper Lee) think that mockingbirds don't eat crops, then you've never had a garden full of tomatoes that you had to screen the buggers off from.

You gave me the reference I needed for my English paper with DuBois! Crash Course rocks so much!

Thank you so much for this video on Mockingbird, and for all of your videos. I've loved this book since High School, and I love being able to think about it in new ways. DFTBA

John Green for president!

Kurt's next! Yay!

This is one of my favorite books of all time; Thanks a ton for making two vids on it Mr. Green! (Since i guess your a teacher)

Thanks John!!! Thanks Crash Course crew!!

Every time he says folKs a little part of me dies... 2:55

Books are great, but when I read a book written in first person, for the next few hours, I believe I am the narrator of the book, I kid you not.

TKAM is one of my favorite books; thank you John Green for doing it justice!!!

This is one of the few books I remember clearly from my middle school years and I NEVER thought of it this deeply before. Now I must reread this book with a whole new perspective.

Speaking of good vs bad movie adaptations of literature: John, what did you think of the 2013 version of "The Great Gatsby" with DiCaprio and Maguire?

The subtitols in this episode aren't correct. Congratulations for your channel is really interesting and I learn a lot of new things.

Wow, I got misty-eyed at the end! Good explanation.

I think this episode is brilliant and I really enjoyed it! Thanks!

Shout-out to Bran Stark warging.

0:38 not if you eat them with chopsticks! :3

Awesome review, John Green. I didn't expect any less. :)

Great for revision. Thanks John

the captions are from part 1 - which is confusing as this is part 2!!!

Y'know, I was almost moved there at the end. Then there was a Hunger Games reference.

I just found out you wrote The Fault In Our Stars. My mind is blown. I watch you in social studies class all of the time.

Your conclusion made me teary-eyed, John :')

Isn't this how everyone lives their lives? I mean with a double identity? I'm Nigerian American and I know how I should act with Africans, how I should act with blacks and how to act with whites. I kinda just thought that's how it is. Humans are mirror animals and have schemas that categorize things so if they categorize a thing in a certain way they will mirror that thing. I've always just thought that's what it was. I'm not saying that that is good because it sucks having that many identities because like Selena's father says in the movie Selena "We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It's exhausting!"

Mila Kunis is old? She's only thirty. Not only that, I'd never even heard of her till a couple years ago. On the other hand, she _was_ born in a country which no longer exists.

I love the ocarina with the music high light

I think you show admirable, true courage in trying to be "hip", John Green.

You say that literature lets us see through other people's eyes, but as I see it, it lets us see through the eyes of one person, the author. You are taking a journey through one person's head and this is my critique of fiction and why most of my reading is non-fiction.

Dont ask me why, but when I was little I used to think Rosa Parks was Hilary Clinton.

John, GREAT discussion of the issues and virtues of To Kill A Mocking Bird. Thank you.

I didn´t know that was your book.. Amazing!

A bad modern movie version: Amazing Spider-man 2.

but wait...the mongols!!

Thanks for this great video! More crash course literature vids would be amazing, you make things so gripping! Next? Madame Bovary? David Copperfield? :)

Literature is the best of all the Crash Courses