At the time Harper Lee was writing To Kill A Mockingbird‚ there were many historical events taking place. At the heart of it all was the Civil Rights movement. “There was little opportunity for African Americans to advance themselves in the South. Schools were segregated between whites and blacks‚ who were not allowed to attend white high schools. Blacks were therefore effectively denied an education‚ since‚ in the early 1930s‚ there was not a single high school for black students in the South” ("To
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a number of historic trials which were based on the lone testimony of one of the women‚ all of the African American men were found guilty and one of the men was sentenced to death convicted by a white jury. Harper Lee was born in April 1926 in Monroeville‚ Alabama‚ the same state as the trial and knew of the conditions surrounding it. Growing up she was known as a Tomboy and called writer‚ Truman Capote her friend. She has studied law at
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GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL PRE-AP SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2013 9TH GRADE Mrs. Nelson: nelson@greenvilleisd.com; Cell- 903-269-0603 English I Pre-AP Summer Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Available at Hastings‚ Barnes and Noble‚ or on Amazon.com [pic] [pic] Assignment: While you read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ note and annotate passages that you think are significant. Mark that book! 1. The goal is to note your thoughts about selected quotes as you read
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greater worldly issues at the time. The serenity of Scout’s memories shocked yet engrossed me in the story. Overall I found it to be a great book with a deeper meaning that kept me enveloped in thought for days. Harper Lee grew up in small town Monroeville‚ Alabama. The Scottsboro trial was happening while she was a young girl. Perhaps this event influenced some of the events in the book. In fact the more you look at Harper Lee’s life‚ the more similarities you find with the book. This may be one
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful‚ winning the Pulitzer Prize‚ and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author’s observations of her family and neighbors‚ as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936‚ when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor‚ despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator’s
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Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ and the father of Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Atticus is a central character in the novel. In 2003‚ Atticus Finch‚ as portrayed by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaptation‚ was voted by the American Film Institute to be the greatest hero in American film.[1] Claudia Durst Johnson noted
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Capote. I will be discussing three literary elements in this paper. Firstly I am going to go over the setting. Then I will talk about the protagonist. lastly I will discuss the antagonist. First‚ the setting in A Christmas Memory took place in Monroeville Alabama. It was during the prohibition. It was also throughout the cold months of November and December. In the story One Christmas the setting was in two different places. A small town in Alabama and in a loud city in New Orleans. This was
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Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville‚ Alabama. Her father practised law in the town and Harper Lee studied law at U the University of Alabama. The southern states of the United States of the 1930s and 1940s of Harper Lee’s girlhood were C strongly influenced by their history of slavery which had officially ended with the American Civil War (1861 1865). K Some knowledge of the history of the American South‚ and of the Civil War of 1861 65 in particular‚ is essential to a proper understanding
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ideal childhood . His parents neglected him very often and ended up leaving him in the care of others (Truman Capote- About The Author) . Since his parents basically abandoned him ‚ he spent his early life in Monroeville ‚ Alabama ‚ in the care of his mothers relatives . While living in Monroeville ‚ Capote befriended Harper Lee . Although the two were opposites they ended up having a very strong ‚ long lasting relationship . In 1932 Capote moved to New York To live with his mom and stepfather full time
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