To Kill a Mockingbird
Told in the voice of six-year-old Scout Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird is an exploration of race, class, and injustice in small-town Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout and her brother Jem's ordinary lives are disrupted when their father Atticus, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. As the trial proceeds, racial tensions run high and Scout's childhood innocence is replaced with a growing knowledge of how her world truly operates.
Quote:
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
Author:
Harper Lee (1926-2016) was born in Monroeville, Alabama. She is best known for To Kill a Mockingbird, which was her only published novel until 2015, when an early draft of the book was published under the title Go Set a Watchman and marketed as a sequel.
Published: 1960
Length: 324 pages
Set in: Alabama, United States