Think about the modern texts you read for this unit. In your opinion, what makes literature "good" or "bad"? How comfortable are you in determining the quality of literature? Do you find it easy to critique a text? If not, what do find difficult? How does your comfort level change depending on the genre and the era in which the text was written? Give me your opinions?

Good literature is unpredictable and surprises you. I am comfortable determining the quality of literature. find it somewhat easy to critique texts in literature. My reaction to a well written piece of literature is all I need to make a determination. I am comfortable with critiquing text in all genres but probably would be hesitant to critique literature written before the 18th century just because of a language difference. People speak more casually and in slang in these times versus then.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).