Atticus & Scout.. Because you loved me.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1962 Film

Gregory Peck

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explains the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."

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You have only understood one tiny facet of this incredible book. This book is about fear of the unknown and others. In fact on the very first page Harper Lee quotes FDR's famous words "we have nothing to fear but fear itself". Think about it now, the kids were afraid of Mrs Dubois and Boo Radley but they turned out to be decent people, especially Boo. Lee is drawing attention to the fact that racism is based on fear. The entire book is about the destructiveness of fear.

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