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__To Kill A Mockingbird__

By Harper Lee



What is it?: A "coming of age" novel written in the 1960's, but the setting takes place in the 1930's.

The book is divided into two halves. Focusing on a main theme of understanding views from another's perspective, the book is arranged so that views about characters in the first half change in the second half.

The narrator is a six year old girl. The choice of a child narrator is unique in the fact that it shows how impressionable children are and how they are so easily molded in their belief system. Although adults are capable of change, when negative attributes are abound--adults are less capable of change in comparison to a child.

The following slide show explains themes, motifs, and symbols that appear within the novel. media type="custom" key="3277392"

Click below to hear Atticus's famous [|closing speech]for the Tom Robinson trial