To Kill A Mockingbird Themes

Nelle Harper Lee, also know as Harper Lee, was the Pulitzer Prize winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird. The story is told through the perspective of a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, and how she reacts to a very important court case where her father is defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. The story takes a look at important racial issues, and has many important themes such as the importance of compassion and open-mindedness. The story was and is very controversial because of how it deals with its different ideas. Lee’s early life largely impacted the plot of the novel. The story took place in Alabama, the same place where Lee grew up. Scout herself is largely based on Lee, as both are described as a tomboy, and tougher than many boys (“Harper Lee; Biography,” 2018). Many of her other characters are also based on people in her life. Scout’s father was based on her actual father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a kindhearted lawyer. The character Charles Baker “Dill” Harris was based on her lifelong friend, Truman Capote, who was also a writer (“Fine, Laura,” 2018). The entire plot of the story

Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, must defend the man in court and from the town that wants to outright kill him. I believe that the book is very important because it talks about how the man is facing unfair discrimination because of his race and how the people of the town need to listen to his side of the story. The book is considered one of the most popular and taught American written book of all time and has been apart of many school curriculums because of it’s important themes (“Grimes, William,” 2016). Recently, however, many parents are trying to pull the book from school reading lists because of the material it