Is “To Kill a Mockingbird” (by Harper Lee) a novel about racism?

Type :

Book review

Pages :

4 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/15/2009

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction.
Context of the novel.
1. The background of the novel written by Harper Lee.
2. The town where the story takes place.
3. The most interesting character to analyse.
Is racism a minor theme of the book?
An efficient plea against racism.
Conclusion.

Abstract

Writing To kill a mockingbird, harper lee has chosen to make a description of the Deep South during the Great Depression of the 30's through the eyes of a young girl, leaving us uncertain about the qualification of this novel. Indeed, reading the biography of the author, the reader realizes that To kill a mockingbird could be a fictional way to describe her own childhood, both having a lot of common points: is it the beginning of an autobiography or simply a novel describing social conflicts in a small town in the south of the United States? Even if trying to qualify the novel would be an interesting exercise, we are more interested in this essay by the fact that the novel is actually told by a young girl who discovers the conflicts of life through naïve eyes. Indeed, her first experience with evils of the world is going to be racial prejudice , with her father defending in courts an African American from trumped-up rape charges.