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Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee was published in 1960 and it became an instant hit because it was based on Southern life, the racism that persisted there, and moreover the novel was staged against Great Depression of America, 1930. The time it covers is around of 1930s, the story has been narrated for over three years’ duration. Two children and their father are persistent throughout the novel – at times it seems that they are concerning the voice of many sufferers who are having difficulty in awakening to evil and bad going around them.


Atticus is a widowed father of two children Scout Finch and Jem Finch. The narrator is a five year old girl, Scout, most of the story has been told through her. They live in Maycomb, Alabama. The community where they live is down with racism, between black and white. Where most of the people are farmers, Atticus is a lawyer. During summer, Atticus’ two children and one more child from the neighborhood play around a tree. They are inquisitive about Radley House; a house which believed to be had has confined Boo Radley. They want to do something to bring that Boo out. Boo is a kindhearted man, but a recluse. How is that man going to help them was something that they could never guess.

A black man has been charged with the rape of a white woman. The community knows that person is an innocent one. But proving someone innocent when the majority holding population is brimming with hate is like going against the tides. When Atticus leaps forward to defend that case the heat of racism falls on them including the children. People call them nigger lover. The jury is ruthless to that black man, eventually he got killed, and in the eyes of children justice is being mocked. How will they accept that ethos of the society? But their father stands firm, he believes that if he is going wrong way it is going to affect them negatively. Part of his life is going in to set good examples for his children. He is concerned about them in a society where people are seeking excuses to vent their pent-up racism hatred on blacks.

The case has been lost but some part of the childhood is won when the accuser get killed under his own circumstances. Narrated at a snail’s pace, the book is a riveting read. A lot of American ethos and societal holes haves been covered in this book inch by inch.

The story remains confine to one family, one county, but the problem it shared and showed was persistent in southern part of America. For this reason, it became an instant hit.

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