I think the author's point wasn't so much that nobody had read To Kill A Mockingbird, but that he was lucky if they'd read anything at all.
Plus, the point of English 101 is to prepare you to be capable of writing the papers needed to pass your other classes. That is, to be able to read, process, and write AT a college level.
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