Carrie's first English class

Mr. Peist · Ewen High classroom

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What it tells you

Twenty minutes into the pilot, a whiteboard is already mapping the universal themes of To Kill a Mockingbird, with Scout, Atticus and Boo Radley drawn out in circles. A show about a girl the whole school has decided is the monster opens with a lesson on a town that picked its monster too.

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The book

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · 1960 · novel

Harper Lee published it in 1960 and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the next year. Boo Radley, the neighbor the town has filed under loner, leaves small gifts for Scout in the knothole of a tree. Carrie's neighbor leaves her books in the mailbox. Mr. Peist at the whiteboard may not have meant it, but the writers did.

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