To Kill A Mocking Bird Book Report
To kill a Mocking Bird
Background assignment
Biography
“Harper Lee was born on the 28th of April 1926” (Lee), in Monroeville, Alabama. Her father is a lawyer and her mother has suffered mental problems and her mother had stayed at home because of it. Harper lived near her best friend Truman Capote, who was very influential in Harper’s childhood. Harper was very interested in English literature. She graduated high school in 1944 and went to the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. Here she stood out because she focused on work or her studies instead of fashion or dating. Later Harper transferred to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa where she continued with her love in writing. She was also part of the school 's …show more content…
During this time period, there was a great division in the racial communities. “The depression, affected both the skin colors as unemployment was everywhere” (© Copyright 2009-2013 Book Drum Ltd). Particularly in the Southern area and particularly rural communities that were the setting of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. “To Kill a Mockingbird took place in a fictional town called Maycomb, Alabama and is the fictional home town of the Finches” (© Copyright 2009-2013 Book Drum Ltd). Maycomb is revealed as a very safe place live. Here everyone left their houses unlocked. “This peace and serenity is broken by the violent racism” (Steven J. Ross) which divided the white and African-American population. “The story may have a 1930s setting but the story was told from the perspective of the 1950s based on the voices, the conflicts, tensions, and fears during that period” (Zuniga). In the novel Harper Lee shows how issues of gender and race greatly affects prejudice. As the story silence the voices of the discriminated. This disturbed the American’s views of the causes of racism and segregation. For example: “Atticus Finch tried to protect and helped a black man who has been charged with raping a white woman to get a fair trial” (Lee). This novel showed how Atticus was alone in fighting the prejudice that was happening in the
Background assignment
Biography
“Harper Lee was born on the 28th of April 1926” (Lee), in Monroeville, Alabama. Her father is a lawyer and her mother has suffered mental problems and her mother had stayed at home because of it. Harper lived near her best friend Truman Capote, who was very influential in Harper’s childhood. Harper was very interested in English literature. She graduated high school in 1944 and went to the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. Here she stood out because she focused on work or her studies instead of fashion or dating. Later Harper transferred to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa where she continued with her love in writing. She was also part of the school 's …show more content…
During this time period, there was a great division in the racial communities. “The depression, affected both the skin colors as unemployment was everywhere” (© Copyright 2009-2013 Book Drum Ltd). Particularly in the Southern area and particularly rural communities that were the setting of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. “To Kill a Mockingbird took place in a fictional town called Maycomb, Alabama and is the fictional home town of the Finches” (© Copyright 2009-2013 Book Drum Ltd). Maycomb is revealed as a very safe place live. Here everyone left their houses unlocked. “This peace and serenity is broken by the violent racism” (Steven J. Ross) which divided the white and African-American population. “The story may have a 1930s setting but the story was told from the perspective of the 1950s based on the voices, the conflicts, tensions, and fears during that period” (Zuniga). In the novel Harper Lee shows how issues of gender and race greatly affects prejudice. As the story silence the voices of the discriminated. This disturbed the American’s views of the causes of racism and segregation. For example: “Atticus Finch tried to protect and helped a black man who has been charged with raping a white woman to get a fair trial” (Lee). This novel showed how Atticus was alone in fighting the prejudice that was happening in the