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To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in 1960, four years before the Civil Rights Act, at a time when racial segregation was still widely enforced in Southern states and this racial slur was ...
The Coexistence of Good and Evil. The most important theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is the book’s exploration of the moral nature of human beings—that is, whether people are essentially good or essentially evil. The novel approaches this question by dramatizing Scout and Jem’s transition from a perspective of childhood innocence, in which ...
Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served on the state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed ...
Jun 26, 2015 · Harper Lee’s father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a lot like Scout’s father Atticus Finch, and she clearly sketched him and local events when creating the plot of Mockingbird. As with Atticus, A.C ...
Chapter 1. The Radley Place fascinated Dill. In spite of our warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon draws water, but drew him no nearer than the light-pole on the corner, a safe distance from the Radley gate. Scout compares Dill’s fascination with the Radley Place to the gravitational pull of the moon on Earth’s oceans, which ...
To Kill A Mockingbird as an Autobiography Harper Lee said that this isn’t a self-portrayal, but instead a case of how a writer ought to expound on what he knows and compose truthfully. Nevertheless, a few people and occasions from the childhood of Lee are a direct reference to the life of young Scout in the novel., Amasa Coleman Lee,the ...
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
