TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Title: To Kill a Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee

Published Year: 1960

Type of Literary Work: Story

Principal Characters:

Atticus Finch

Jean Louise "Scout" Finch

Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch

Charles Baker "Dill" Harris

Calpurnia

Minor Characters:

Uncle John Hale "Jack" Finch

Francis Hancock

Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose

Judge John Taylor

Heck Tate

Mr. Braxton Underwood

Mr. Gilmore

Dr. Reynolds

Dolphus Raymond

Theme: Harper Lee novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" is one of those books that you read with interest in youth and then repeatedly reread as an adult.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Role of Race Relations

To Kill a Mockingbird is primarily a novel about race relations. Claudia Durst Johnson considers it "reasonable to consider" the novel was largely influenced by two events related to racial issues that occurred in Alabama. The refusal of Rosa Parks sit in the back of a bus triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the riots of 1956 at the University of Alabama after Autherine Lucy and Polly Myers were accepted as students (Myers subsequently withdrew its registration, and Lucy was expelled). Two other students of literature, referring to the historical context of the novel, said: "To Kill a Mockingbird was written and published in the midst of the greatest social transformation and conflict in the South since the Civil War and Reconstruction. Inevitably, despite being set in the mid 1930's, the story told from the perspective of the 1950, talks about the conflicts, tensions and fears induced by this transition. This has highlighted the impact of the novel on race relations in the United States as a factor in its success.

Protagonist Interaction in Different Races

The story “To kill a mocking bird” was written around the year 1930 in a small fictionist town called Maycomb. The United States had become a strong nation by that time and was further developing. Even though, Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, had brought slavery of blacks to an end they were still considered inferior, were paid low, and their lives were devoid of any law. The purpose of this novel was to condemn prejudices and racism in the society. Lee raised her voice against the enslavement of the judiciary and police to the power of economy.

The adults of Maycomb avoid talking about Boo and very few have seen in years. Children feed their imagination with rumors about the apparitions of Boo and the reasons for remaining hidden and elaborate fantasies and plans on how they might encourage him to leave home. After two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem begin to receive small gifts that someone placed in a tree near the Radley house. Several times, the mysterious Boo makes them small presents to children, but their disappointment, never appears in person.

So if, this book is a true picture of the world of arbitrariness that was the America in which blacks were lost and against which they will conduct their greatest struggles in the 60's, he also wants the testimony of a deep humanity a father wants to let grow in the heart of his ...