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Harper Lee

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Harper Lee

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  1. Harper Lee

  2. Nelle Harper Lee, commonly known as Harper Lee, is an American novelist born April 28, 1926. She is known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only major work to date. To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate bestseller and won Lee great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. In 2007, she was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush for that book. • Lee was born in the small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville on April 28, 1926, the youngest of four children born to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who also served on the state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and intelligent; she enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote. • Lee was only five years old when, in April 1931 in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, the first trials began surrounding the alleged rapes of two white women by nine young black men. The Scottsboro case left a deep impression on the young Lee, who would use it later as the rough basis for the events in To Kill a Mockingbird.

  3. Historical Fiction

  4. Historical fictionis a type of fiction that often portrays alternate accounts or dramatization of historical figures or events. Stories in this genre, although fictional, make an attempt at capturing the spirit, manners, and social conditions of the person or time they represent with attention paid to detail and reliability. Historic fiction presents readers with a story that takes place during a notable period in history, and usually during a significant event in that period.

  5. Historical fiction will either: • Present the reader with famous events from points of view not recorded in history, showing historical figures dealing with actual events while depicting them in a way that is not recorded in history. • Compliment a story's narrative, occurring in the background while characters deal with events (personal or otherwise) unrelated to recorded history. • Be true for the most part, but the names of people and places have been in someway altered.

  6. Because it is still fiction, “artistic license” is permitted in regards to presentation and subject matter, so long as it does not deviate in significant ways from established history. Otherwise, the story does not fall into the genre of historical fiction.

  7. Essential Questions for Learning

  8. How does the novel To Kill A Mockingbird use the literary elements characterization, plot, point of view, setting and symbolism to present a deeper understanding of the thematic concepts prejudice, courage, justice, coming of age, innocence, and the importance of education? • How does To Kill A Mockingbird meet the characteristics to be classified as Historical Fiction?

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