... it. It took her two and a half years and the help of her editor, Tay Hohoff, to re-write the novel and finalize To Kill A Mockingbird. The novel was published in 1960, and remains Harper Lee's only published book. Harper Lee's outstanding novel To Kill A Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was transformed into an award winning motion picture in 1962. The story is set ... is one main character that links Part I and Part II together-the mysterious Boo Radley who hadn"t showed his face in twenty-five years. During the 1930's racial prejudice was deeply embedded in the S...

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• Grade Level: High School

CHARACTER STUDY: Scout - Scout is a very unusual little girl, both in her own qualities and in her social position. She is unusually intelligent (she learns to read before beginning school), unusually confident (she fights boys without fear), unusually thoughtful (she worries about the essential goodness and evil of mankind), and unusually good (she always acts with ... attended the University of Alabama law school and spent the 1950's working for Eastern Airlines and writing short stories. On the suggestion of her editor, Lee developed one of her short stories into her only novel, To Kill A...

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... protesters in Texas. ""Tis a sin- Atticus, a character in the story would say. The poison at the heart of this controversy is the use of what has been defined, and rightly so, as the most offensive racial slur in the entire English language the word "nigger." Other charges against this book include, but are not limited to, the appearance of sexual content and ... racial themes. I cannot argue that these issues don't appear in this book, because they do. I just believe that they are no basis for eliminating the book from our public education system. To Kill A Mockingbird is a compassiona...

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• Grade Level: High School