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To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee . Author: Harper Lee . Born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Quill Award for Audio Book

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To Kill A Mockingbird

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  1. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee

  2. Author: Harper Lee • Born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama • Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom and Quill Award for Audio Book • To Kill a Mockingbird is Lee’s only book to ever be published and has more than 30 million copies in print • Lee’s father was an attorney in Alabama and defended two black men who were accused of murdering a white storekeeper

  3. Setting: • Maycomb, Alabama

  4. Summary/Overview: • Jem and Scout and their friend Dill are obsessed with the Radley house where Boo, the boogey man lives. • Jem and Scout pass by the Radley’s house everyday on the way school and begin to find items stuck inside of a tree. • During a fire on a winter night, Scout is standing outside and finds out that Boo put a blanket around her. • At school, Jem and Scout receive rude comments from classmates because their father, Atticus, is defending a black man.

  5. Summary/Overview: • One Sunday, Jem and Scout go to church with their housekeeper where they are very welcomed. • Jem and Scout find out the reason why Tom Robinson is being tried. • Scout, Jem and Dill watch the trial in secret from the balcony. • Despite evidence of innocence, the jury convicts Tom.

  6. Summary/Overview: • Later on, Tom Robinson is killed when trying to escape. • After the trial, Bob Ewell plans revenge. • Ewell attacks Jem and Scout one night but they are saved by a mystery man. • When Scout returns home she realizes the mystery man was Boo. • The town sheriff tells Atticus that Bob Ewell died. • Scout befriends Boo.

  7. Characters: • Scout • Jem • Dill- Jem and Scout’s friend who lives in Maycomb during the summer • Atticus-Lawyer who defends Tom Robinson and father to Scout and Jem • Calpurnia- Finch’s housekeeper. Keeps Scout and Jem in line. • Boo- Man who lives down the street from the Finch’s and saves Scout and Jem.

  8. Characters: • Thomas Robinson- Black man accused of raping MayellaEwell. • MayellaEwell- Accuses Thomas Robinson of raping her. • Bob Ewell- father to MayellaEwell

  9. Quotes: • “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”  • “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. • “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”  • Scout: “Atticus, he was real nice.“ • Atticus: “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”

  10. Themes: • Race • Fear • Justice and Judgment • Family • Morality and Ethics

  11. Symbolism: • Mockingbird: Represents innocence and connects with Tom Robinson • Boo Radley: Represents Scout and Jem’s development from innocence to maturity.

  12. Video: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N3_wsjW7AY

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