The Mockingbird Parables by Matt Litton

I received the Mockingbird Parables by Matt Litton from Tyndale Publishers in return for posting this review.

Matt Litton in the book The Mockingbird Parables takes readers through Harper Lee’s masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird in a new and really interesting way. In his new book Litton analyzes events and characters from To Kill a Mockingbird and how they represent the Christian faith and the Gospel. In itself To Kill a Mockingbird opens many questions, but with Litton’s look into it through Christian faith it takes the book to an even deeper level.

Each chapter of the book focuses in a different aspects from To Kill a Mockingbird and how they represent different aspects of Christianity and Christian Faith. The book is broken down as follows:

• Boo Radley – Discovering Our Divine Mysterious Neighbor
• House Fires and Church Collections – Our Responsibility to Care for the Neighborhood
• Scout Finch – The Role of Women in Faith
• Miss Maudie’s Azaleas – Our Responsibility to Care for Creation
• Atticus Finch – The Model of Christian Courage
• The Missionary Tea – Our Responsibility to the Global Neighborhood Begins at Home
• The Great Depression – The Christian Ethic and Financial Responsibility
• Tom Robinson – How Compassion Can Overcome Our Differences
• Raising Jem and Scout Finch – Parenting for Compassion
• The Last Word - Communicating to Build Community

I feel this book will appeal to a variety of different audiences. Litton does a great job at getting his points across  in each of the eleven sections. He writes in a style that is easy to read, to take in, and understand. In a book of this nature it is hard for one to keep from being to bias, but Litton does a good job with it. His correlations have biblical backing, and was well researched and though out.

With a book that is relating two if the most recognized and most popular books of all time how could Litton go wrong. I think this book will be very popular to those that have read To Kill a Mockingbird, but to those that have not read the book or watched the movie they may skip over the title. This book may even do better if packaged with a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird or copy of the movie. More people may even purchase it that way. This book would easily fit into a colleges religion departments curriculum, or even in churches class curriculum.

I feel To Kill a Mockingbird has many topics that are relevant to todays society, and with Litton analyzing the book from a Christian”s perspective has taken a popular worldly book and incorporated biblical principles to it.

This book will not be for everyone. To those who like to see religious perspectives taken out of popular worldly contexts then you will more than likely like it. If you are a reader of classical literature you will probably appreciate the work that Litton has done. However, if you have no prior knowledge of To Kill a Mockingbird then you will probably not appreciate this book.

Below is a trailer for the book: