what other aspects of harper lee background might have helped her in becoming a writer
By narrating the story with a child's eyes, Harper Lee illustrates the goodness, simplicity, and innocence of a child. It emphasizes the cruelty and evil within the novel when Scout's ideas change when she is revealed to it. Compared to an adult's perspective, the adult would not see the events of Maycomb as good versus evil, instead,they would be mature and know from experience that life is tough.
I believe Lee was presenting a problem to the public eye that needed remedy. I think she was in a sense challenging the status quo. She presented racism in a realistic light and exposed it as a moral flaw. Yet she expressed no hatred or animosity toward any person in the book with the exception of the plaintiff's father. The rest of the characters are shown, by the author, either pity for their ignorance or economic problems or respect and admiration for using wisdom and intelligence to attempt (even if one fails) to instigate social change. Education is god in To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch was a lawyer of great intelligence who was the hero of the story. Scout was his daughter and we see her education from her father to teach her that all humans are created equal in the world and we are to use our strengths (whether physical or intellectual) to protect the ignorant and weak not to bully and intimidate.
So yes I believe Harper is calling for change in the world. If she was merely describing life as it is in Maycomb her book would be nothing more than nihilistic resentment. It is much more than that.
Yes, she grew up a tomboy who often got in fights, talked back to teachers, and had no interest in early schooling. ^__^ She was a pretty tough cookie as a child if you ask me.
A boy she liked when she was younger.
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Dill is based on Truman Capote, her childhood friend with whom she remained close friends for most of his life. He died in 1984.
According to Powell's Books, an online bookseller, there have been over 30,000,000 copies of To Kill A Mockingbird sold so far. It is presently ranked in the top 2,000 titles sold on Amazon, so that number changes rapidly.
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Harper Lee's childhood was a difficult one given the fact that he hailed from a very poor family background. As a child, Harper Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader.
Mrs. Radley dies right before the cold snap. It is at the same time as when Miss Maudie's house burns down.
An example of symbolism in to kill a mockingbird is the mockingbird itself. people who appear as mockingbirds are mr Raymond. tom Robinson and boo radley.
the mockingbird represents innocence and all these characters are innocent
Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
she likes to write in a souther style, with the way she writes the dialogue
Three years. Harper Lee wrote the first draft in 1957 and the book was published in the year of 1960.
Because without it the book wouldn't have as much of an impact. Segregation was hell for those involved, plain and simple. To sugarcoat it would all but strip the experience bare. I would rather have to deal with a few "N" words, than to be prevented from reading this novel.
Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926, and has lived her entire life in Monroeville, Alabama. In 2007, she personally accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush at the White House. In the late 2000s, she also attended a few book signings for children. Apart from that, she has been very reclusive but generous with the royalties she receives from her only book: she has donated to symphony orchestras, libraries and other causes she deems worthy.
In 2010 or 2011, Miss Lee entered an assisted care facility. According to her friend Dr. Thomas Butts, she is in a wheelchair, has lost some of her sight and hearing, and suffers some dementia.