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To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes
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 To Kill a Mockingbird can refer to either: To Kill a Mockingbird (novel) , the Pulitzer Prize -winning novel by Harper Lee . To Kill a Mockingbird (film) , the film, based on the novel, starring Gregory Peck , Mary Badham , Phillip Alford , and Robert...




| Name: |
Harper Lee | | Variant Name: |
Nelle Harper Lee | | Birth Date: |
April 28, 1926 | | Place of Birth: |
Monroeville, Alabama, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Harper Lee
2782 words, approx. 9.3 pages
 As a child, Harper Lee was "a rough 'n' tough tomboy.... She had short, cropped hair, wore coveralls, went barefoot, and could talk mean like a boy," according to Marianne M. Moates in A Bridge of Childhood: Truman Capote's Southern Years. Known as Nelle...
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Biography of Harper Lee
2081 words, approx. 6.9 pages
 Harper Lee's reputation as an author rests on her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). An enormous popular success, the book was selected for distribution by the Literary Guild and the Bookof- the-Month Club and was published in a shortened version...
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Biography of (Nelle) Harper Lee
1942 words, approx. 6.5 pages
 Harper Lee's reputation as an author rests on her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). An enormous popular success, the book was selected for distribution by the Literary Guild and the Book-of-the-Month Club and was published in a shortened version...



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To Kill a Mockingbird Summary
695 words, approx. 2 pages Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird gives an accurate reflection of race relations in the Southern United States during the 1930s. The novel, set around a single-father family in small-town Alabama, contains a vast array of symbolism to...
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 1960 Summary
9,083 words, approx. 30 pages To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 1960 Introduction To Kill a Mockingbird is the Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of prejudice in a small Alabama town. The novel was published in 1960 as the civil rights movement was gathering momentum and is set...
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To Kill a Mockingbird Summary
3,876 words, approx. 13 pages To Killa Mockingbird by Harper Lee Adescendant of the renowned Southern general Robert E. Lee, (Nelle) Harper Lee was born in 1926 to Frances Finch Lee and Amasa Coleman, a lawyer. She lived with her family in the small Alabama town of Monroeville....
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To Kill a Mockingbird Information
11,000 words, approx. 37 pages
 To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. Due to the multiple themes addressed in the novel, it has the genre characteristics of a bildungsroman and a Southern gothic. Upon its release, it became instantly...




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Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Patrick Chura
11,736 words, approx. 39 pages
 In the following essay, Chura discusses the representation of race and justice in To Kill a Mockingbird in the historical context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s.
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Critical Essay by Steven Lubet
11,389 words, approx. 38 pages
 In the following essay, Lubet questions the standard perception of Atticus Finch as a role model for lawyers. Lubet provides an analysis of the trial portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird from the perspective of today's legal defense methods and ethics, particularly in regard to rape trials.
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Critical Essay by Joseph Crespino
7,478 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, Crespino examines popular and critical responses to the representation of race and justice in To Kill a Mockingbird between the years 1960 and 2000.
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