To Kill a Mockinbird
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
One of the major masterpieces of American literature, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee originally as a love story, was published in 1960 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. It also won an Academy Award when it was later made into a film starring Gregory Peck. The story is set in imaginary Maycomb County in southern Alabama. The time frame for the story is the early 1930's during the great …
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…victim of racial prejudice and is accused of doing wrong when he is really innocent. Clearly he is the harmless "mockingbird" of the story. The only thing that Tom is guilty of is being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The townspeople live in a system of segregation and cannot go against that system. This is why Tom is found guilty…. Because he is a black man living in a white man's world.
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