27: Tequila Mockingbird

Ever wondered what makes a story a classic? Or how many jiggers of literary tropes it takes to mix a mockingbird? Well, the Priority team may not have all of the answers, but that's never stopped them. In their third foray into art and culture, Caitie and Max visit and revisit Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Caitie rediscovers some important moments, the things that make Mockingbird a real gem across her years of "required reading." Max finds the novel more entertaining than he'd expected. (Then again, his pre-reading impressions included "something-something-racism" and "someone named Scout.") Thoughtful cultural critics they are, Caitie and Max decide that maybe it’s not about how much tequila is in your mockingbird. Maybe it's more important that we keep questioning the classics and looking for what’s useful in all those books we were supposed to have read.

Ever wondered what makes a story a classic? Or how many jiggers of literary tropes it takes to mix a mockingbird?

Well, the Priority team may not have all of the answers, but that's never stopped them. In their third foray into art and culture, Caitie and Max visit and revisit Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Caitie rediscovers some important moments, the things that make Mockingbird a real gem across her years of "required reading." Max finds the novel more entertaining than he'd expected. (Then again, his pre-reading impressions included "something-something-racism" and "someone named Scout.")

Thoughtful cultural critics they are, Caitie and Max decide that maybe it’s not about how much tequila is in your mockingbird. Maybe it's more important that we keep questioning the classics and looking for what’s useful in all those books we were supposed to have read. 

Links: 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Wikipedia / Amazon

Harper Lee | Wikipedia

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | IMDB / Amazon

Truman Capote | Wikipedia

Hawkeye & Mockingbird | Wikipedia

Mockingbird Lane | Wikipedia

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | Wikipedia / Amazon

Cliffs Notes Study Guides | Official Site

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Wikipedia

Wuthering Heights | Wikipedia

Muppet Babies | Wikipedia

The Simpsons | Wikipedia

Sesame Street | Wikipedia

List of Walt Disney Pictures Films | Wikipedia

Peter Pan (1953 Film) | Wikipedia

The Boo Radleys | Wikipedia

Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) | Wikipedia

Monroeville, Alabama | Wikipedia

Home Alone | Wikipedia

Chekhov's Gun | Wikipedia

Upton Sinclair | Wikipedia

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Won't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Amazon

Extraversion and Introversion | Wikipedia

To Kill a Mockingbird (Film) | Wikipedia

Gregory Peck | Wikipedia

Finding Forrester | IMDB / Amazon

J. D. Salinger | Wikipedia

Edgar Allen Poe | Wikipedia

"Roy Newquist Interviews Harper Lee" | Counterpoint (via Archive.org)

"William Gibson Explains Why Science Fiction Is About the Present" by Cory Doctorow | BoingBoing

New Girl | Wikipedia

Western Canon | Wikipedia

"New AP U.S. History Teaching Framework Released After Controversy" by Wyatt Massey | CNN

The Matrix (franchise) | Wikipedia