A Study Guide (New Edition) for Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
1960
Introduction
Considered a standard of American literature, Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired in part by her own experience growing up in 1930s rural Alabama with family and friends similar to those found in the fictional town of Maycomb. Lee unfolds a coming-of-age story set in the Jim Crow South, showcasing poignant themes regarding prejudice and injustice that render the novel an essential read for classroom discussions of the civil rights movement. To Kill a Mockingbird contains grim subject matter, such as depictions of racism (including some characters' use of racial slurs), the aftermath of sexual assault, and violence against children; this content has caused the novel to be included on lists of banned books consistently since the year of its publication.
Yet since its publication in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird has also enjoyed widespread success, with critics praising Lee's handling of a social issue of her day, her representation of small-town southern life, and her literary skill.
Author Biography
Harper Nelle Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in the small town of Monroeville, Alabama, the fourth and youngest child of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and his wife, Frances Finch Lee. One of Lee's childhood friends was Truman Capote, a boy who spent his summers visiting relatives in Monroeville and who later, like Lee herself, became a renowned author. Readers of Lee's first and most famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, will recognize some details of Lee's life that also appear in the story of widowed lawyer Atticus Finch and his children, who reside in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, where a young friend from Mississippi stays the summer with his aunt.
Media Adaptations
To Kill a Mockingbird was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 1962 and distributed by Universal Pictures. Gregory Peck's performance as Atticus Finch won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Mary Badham played Scout, and Phillip Alford played her brother, Jem. Along with Peck's Academy Award, the film earned seven other Academy Award nominations and took home the award for Best Adapted Screenplay (the film's screenplay was written by Horton Foote) and the award for Best Black and White Art Direction.
To Kill a Mockingbird was recorded as an audiobook in 2008, produced by HarperCollins Publishers and read by actor and singer Sissy Spacek. The run time is twelve hours and seventeen minutes.
According to the editors of Life, writing in The Enduring Legacy of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird,
and quoted by Daniel Levy in Time, the novel's central plot around Tom Robinson's trial was likely influenced by young Lee's experience during the civil rights movement and watching her father's involvement in attempting to achieve justice for black men on trial in 1930s Alabama.
Lee attended public school in Monroeville, where her interest in writing began to flourish at a young age; she later studied and continued to write at both Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, but she left school in 1949 without having earned a degree. Lee moved to New York City, where she intended to focus on writing, but she was