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Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, focuses on the trail of an innocent African-American man found guilty of raping a Anglo-American woman during the 1930s in Alabama (Buck, 1081). Narrated from the view point of a six-year-old girl, it emphasizes that children are born with an instinct for justice; they learn prejudice in socialization. Scout is the name of the young girl narrating the story, and is in many ways similar to Harper Lee as a young child. According to Margianne M. Moates in A Bridge of Childhood: Truman Capote's Southern Years, Harper Lee as a child was "A rough ‘n' tough ...