TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD ESSAY

To Kill a mocking
Harper Lee deals with prejudice in a large way in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. The main theme of the novel is prejudice. Almost every character is involved in a situation that contains prejudice. The novel is staged in the ‘tired old town’ of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s. Maycomb is a classic southern town full of gossip, tradition and burdened with a legacy of racism. Harper Lee bases her novel on historical events that started only a few years before her novel was published. The civil rights movement had begun and was a very important in America at the time the novel was being written, so there was likely to be a lot of prejudice in Harper Lee’s novel. There are many situations in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ that are very similar to actual historical events, such as the Scottsboro trials which have a lot in common with the fictional trial of Tom Robinson.
The narrator in the novel is called Scout Finch, and the story is told through Scout’s perspe...