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Full Title: To Kill a Mockingbird. When Written: 1950-1960. Where Written: New York City and Monroeville, Alabama. When Published: 1960. Literary Period: Modernism. Genre: Bildungsroman; Social Novel. Setting: The fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Climax: The trial of Tom Robinson; or when Bob Ewell attacks Scout ...
Although To Kill a Mockingbird is a work of fiction, the rape trial of Tom Robinson at the center of the plot is based on several real trials of Black men accused of violent crimes that took place during the years before Lee wrote her book. Lee does not exaggerate the racism in her account. If anything, she downplays it: unlike many Black ...
Tom Robinson's trial is covered in chapters 17-21 in Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem and Scout watch all of the proceedings of the trial, and they are thoroughly engaged in it too.
In Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch accepts the difficult task of defending an innocent black man named Tom Robinson in front of a racist white jury in Maycomb ...
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 they assume that people are good ...
Tom Robinson. Thomas "Tom" Robinson is an African-American who has three children with his wife, Helen. He is accused and put on trial for the rape of a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Atticus is assigned to defend him and stands up to a lynch mob intent on exacting their own justice against him before the trial begins.
Meet the characters in 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. From Scout the adorable tomboy, to the mysterious Boo Radley and the noble Atticus Finch. Article written by Onyekachi Osuji. The narrator and some other characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are kids, bringing an innocent perspective to the story. We also have characters who are completely good ...
