The Mockingbird Will Sing No Longer

The Mockingbird Will Sing No Longer
Introduction: Adolescent lessons, burning houses, mysterious neighbors, a racial trial, and life lessons for all, To Kill a Mockingbird has it all. A female child, Scout, her older brother, Jem, and a friend from out of town, Dill, spend their summers spooking up all sorts of mayhem within their imaginations. They conjure up ways to entertain themselves in their uneventful southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. The author, Harper Lee, uses a creative style of writing that seemed to illuminate the characters and their point of views. Lee takes an ordinary situation and adds a flare to it that puts a spark, or spunk, into what would have been just a bland character. She sets an image of a little girl following in her big brother’s footsteps, trying to be one of the guys while growing into a girl that her evil aunt wants her to be as she forms an attraction for her friend, Dill.
Synopsis: Scout, a young girl in a quiet south...