To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Character Analysis
To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Nelle Harper Lee, was published in 1960 and immediately became successful. However, starting in 1977, the book was challenged and even banned from many school districts due to the themes presented by the novel. (American Literature Association) The novel is in first person point of view and the speaker is Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. In the first part of the novel, Scout simply narrates her everyday life, in which she has a brother named Jim, a friend who comes to Maycomb, her hometown, every summer, and a wise father and lawyer, Atticus Finch. (Felty) Atticus teaches her not to prejudge anyone, as he says, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (Lee 28) This
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Born, April 1926, and raised in Monroeville, Lee was a tomboy who fought and argued with other children and teachers, and can be compared to Scout as illustrated in, (The Big Read) “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish thing,” (Lee 75) However, at a young age she befriended a boy named Truman Capote. With an old typewriter, they wrote original stories. Eventually, Capote was the inspiration for the character Dill. (The Big Read) The fact that Capote has only visited Monroeville during the summer is also represented in Dill, “That was the summer that Dill came to us,” (Lee 4) Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, practiced law and unsuccessfully tried to defend two black men from a murder accusation before he received his lawyer title. The same incident happened to his represented character, Atticus Finch, “His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail.” Harper Lee was accepted to the University of Alabama to enter law school, but she dropped out and moved to New York to be a writer. It took ten years until the novel was actually published and it quickly became a bestseller. To Kill A Mockingbird received a Pulitzer Prize one year after it was published. (The Big
Born, April 1926, and raised in Monroeville, Lee was a tomboy who fought and argued with other children and teachers, and can be compared to Scout as illustrated in, (The Big Read) “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish thing,” (Lee 75) However, at a young age she befriended a boy named Truman Capote. With an old typewriter, they wrote original stories. Eventually, Capote was the inspiration for the character Dill. (The Big Read) The fact that Capote has only visited Monroeville during the summer is also represented in Dill, “That was the summer that Dill came to us,” (Lee 4) Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, practiced law and unsuccessfully tried to defend two black men from a murder accusation before he received his lawyer title. The same incident happened to his represented character, Atticus Finch, “His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail.” Harper Lee was accepted to the University of Alabama to enter law school, but she dropped out and moved to New York to be a writer. It took ten years until the novel was actually published and it quickly became a bestseller. To Kill A Mockingbird received a Pulitzer Prize one year after it was published. (The Big