“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it-whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”(Lee, 220). Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a fictional novel about a young girl named Scout and the life lessons she learns throughout the novel as she grows up. The setting is a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. The town, as well as its residents, are suffering hard times as it is the Great Depression. The story is mainly centered on the Tom Robinson Case where a black man is accused of raping a white woman. Another big part of the novel is a man named Boo Radley who has rumors made about him all throughout the novel. The major characters of this novel are Scout, Jem, Atticus, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. …show more content…
However, many of the events that happen throughout the novel relate to Lee’s childhood. Lee’s novel is loosely based on her own life. The Tom Robinson case in the book relates to a similar event that happened in her own hometown of Monroeville, AL. The Scottsboro case that occurred when Lee was just ten years old when nine African American men were falsely accused of raping two white women much like Tom Robinson was in the novel. Although the novel has many similarities Lee was influenced to write the novel by her own personal experience (“What influenced Harper Lee to write the novel To Kill a Mockingbird? –