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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