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One of the most influential novels in American history.
• Rated, after the Bible, as one book “most often cited as making a difference” in people’s lives
• Considered the one book “every adult should read before they die” by British librarians
• Voted the “Best Novel of the 20th century” by readers of the Library Journal
• Ranked fifth on the Modern Library’s Reader’s List of the 100 Best Novels in the English language since 1900
“Literature helps us to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own.” ~ C.S. Lewis
“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.”
~James McCosh
Pay careful attention to the butterfly in the following picture:
• What is it flying to?
• What color is it?
Pay careful attention to the woman in the following
picture:
• Is her eye open or closed?
• What color is her lipstick?
The Author
• Nelle Harper Lee, 34 year-old woman
• Born (1926) and raised in Monroeville, AL
• Daughter of Amasa Lee, a small-town lawyer and widower
• Law school drop out, 1949
• Childhood friend of author Truman Capote
Novel based on Famous Court Case:
The Scottsboro Boys1931-1937
Nine African American
teenagers falsely accused of rape.
The investigations
and trials lasted 6 years.
A white lawyer, Sam Leibowitz, defended the accused boys.
They were found guilty,
all were hung, although no
evidence could convict them.
The Characters
• Narrator: Scout Finch, six-year-old girl• Atticus Finch, Scout’s father, widower, &
small-town lawyer• Jem Finch, Scout’s older brother• Dill Harris, strange, pint-sized summer
neighbor• ‘Boo’ Radley, mysterious & reclusive neighbor • Tom Robinson, African American man accused
of rape• Bob Ewell, poor red-neck racist
The Story
Set in small-town Alabama in the 1930s Spans three years Narrated by Scout 3 children learn about life by witnessing
the complicated problems facing adults in their small Alabama town.
“If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
~Atticus Finch, TKAM, p. 34
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s garden’s, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hears out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
~Miss Maudie, TKAM, page 94