To Kill A Mockingbird

 
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To Kill A Mockingbird is a humorous and warm book.  It was greatly successful and even won the Pulitzer Prize award.  It was written by Harper Lee, and published in 1906.  The story is slightly based on her family and neighbors when she was growing up.  The book involves racial injustice and what it was like in the south depending on your class or gender.  An event that happened in Harper's childhood is also brought up.  This book is classified as a Southern Gothic novel.  The book was also later turned into film.

There is many similarities between Harper's real childhood and Scout Finch's childhood in the book.  First of all they both grew up in the 1930's in the southern state of Alabama.  Her father was a lawyer in real life and in the book.  Scout and Harper were very alike in personality also.  They were both tomboys and even though they were young they were very opinionated and knew what they were talking about.  During Harper's childhood there was a specific event that happened when she was six years old.  This event was the Scottsboro Trial which was about a African American man supposedly raping a white woman.  In the book there was an identical situation called the Tom Robinson trial which was the exact same thing as the Scottsboro Trial.  So the book is a lot like Harper Lee's childhood and the people involved in it.