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To Kill A Mockingbird Book Report

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Many books are a big part of our lives, no matter who its by. Some of the best books, were made in the 1960's. Like for example,To Kill A Mockingbird, is a book known everywhere. They made us read it practifically every year in school. And watch the movie as well. So just by that, you know it meant something and still means something , if its being used in schools today. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird shows how the times back then are diifferem nowand how different races were being treated.

The time that this story is about and took place is in the 1960's often a time where African Americans weren't treated equal as whites. It was about the racial prejudices in the South. Lee didnt specifically say why she wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. …show more content…

Another similarity is that the civil rights movemt, it took place in 1954-1968 , the time harper wrote this book. Also an online sourc quotes "The book is set in Maycomb, Alabama, the fictional name for Monroeville, where Lee grew up."

The name of the writer is Harper Lee, born april 28, 1926 and died february 19, 2016. While we can use historical critism to speculate on why harper lee wrote the novel to kill a mockingbird, unless she tells us, we cannot truly know". So in other words, we dont know the true reason why Lee wrote this novel. Tom Robinson case was kind of the same as a case in the life of Harper Lee. Walter Lett was accused of raping a white woman, when Le was about 10, near Monroeville.

Nelle Harper Lee is from Monroeville, Alabama, U.S and was 89 whe she passed away. Her literary movement was Southern Gothic. One of the quotes that Lee has said about her book is how she thinks and sees it, "I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers but, at the same time, I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I saod, but i got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd …show more content…

Showing us how we treated humans, we're all humans and deserve all the same rights no matter what color. Even though it took place in the 1930's , at the time it was was being wirtten and was released, was in 1960, the time of the civil rights movement.The time Lee lived in, is based on this. Even though she said its not an autobigraphy, some of the things in the story are represtended on her life and people in

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