To Kill a Mockingbird (The Sixties in America)
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
The Work
Narrated by precocious Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, who ages from six to eight in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird depicts the initiation of Scout, her older brother Jem, and their friend Dill into the adult world of prejudice and injustice. Growing up in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930’s, the three children are fascinated by the story of Arthur “Boo” Radley, who, following some youthful misdeed, has been forced into seclusion by his fanatically religious family and subsequently victimized by the community’s prejudice and fear. Although the children view...
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