To Kill a Mockingbird (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Harper Lee
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: African Americans, Girls, Justice, Maturation or coming of age, Segregation or integration, Children, Parents and children, Racism, South or Southerners, Prejudices or antipathies, 1930’s, Trials, Rape, Law or legislation, Violence, Fathers, Lawyers, Small-town life, Alabama, Heroes or heroism, Toleration
- Locales: South (U.S.), Maycomb, AL
Between the ages of 6 and 9, Scout Finch has doubts about whether she wishes to grow up to be a lady. She much prefers the free, boyish life she enjoys with her older brother, Jem, and his friends. She also enjoys an open relationship with her widowed father, Atticus, a local attorney and perennial legislator.
Though many of the family’s adventures are told, Scout’s life during these years centers on two events, her developing relationship with Boo Radley and her father’s defense of Tom, a black wrongly accused of raping a white woman.
Scout discovers that while the...
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