Dec 16, 2009

To Kill a Mockingbird | To Kill a Mockingbird

At a glance:

Author: Harper Lee
First Published: 1960
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

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s one published novel, is set in a small Southern town. People there are defined by gender, race, and social class, forced to play the roles that history and gossip have assigned to them. When the book was published, it was seen primarily as an attack on racial prejudice. However, it is now more correctly viewed as opposing all infringements on the rights of people to be themselves.

In Maycomb, Alabama, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch and her brother Jem are being reared by their widower father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer....

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To Kill a Mockingbird | To Kill a Mockingbird

At a glance:

The Work

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