To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
| Author | Harper Lee |
|---|---|
| Year | 1960 |
| Genre | Classics |
The narrator is an eight-year-old girl, and this decision defines the entire book. Scout lives in a sleepy Alabama town in the thirties, where adults are polite, neighbors are strange, and the racial order of things is considered as natural as the weather. Her father, lawyer Atticus Finch, takes on the defense of a black man accused by a white woman — and the town shows its true face. The child's perspective works like an X-ray: the child notices what adults have learned not to see and asks questions that have no decent answers. At the same time, the 1960 novel is not only about the trial; half of it is about summer games, the fear of the house with closed shutters, and the slow realization that the neighborhood monster may be the kindest person in the block. Atticus has long become a household name — a model of how to do the right thing, knowing in advance that you will lose.
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