To Kill A Mockingbird By: Harper Lee

      

Harper Lee

AKA Nelle Harper Lee

Born: 28-Apr-1926

Birthplace: Monroeville, AL

Gender: Female
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: To Kill A Mockingbird

      Lee was five years old in the small Alabama town of Scottsboro, when the first trials began regarding with the rape case of two white women by a nine black men. A twelve-year old boy found guilty and was sentenced to death without having a lawyer in the first trial and was judged by the white jury. The Scottsboro case left a deep impression of young Lee, who would use these case as the rough basis for the events of her novel "To kill a Mockingbird".

       To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the depression. A six-year old girl named Jean Louise "scout" Finch stand as the narrator in the story who's a rebellious tomboy and believes in her heart in the goodness of people behind of their unequal traits the whites and black men. Together with his older brother Jeremy "jem" Finch who has very high standard and expectations for people, her best friend Charles Baker "dill" Harris who exhibits strong sense of adventure and initiates the expeditions towards Radley's house. Her father, Atticus Finch is a standard moral lawyer who fights for freedom and justice of Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a very poor girl named Mayella Ewell a member of Ewell Family, who belong to the layer of Maycomb society that people refer to as "trash". The Finch family races harsh criticism in the heavy racist of Maycomb because of Atticus decision to defend the black man  Tom Robinson. Despite this, Atticus wants to reveal the truth to his fellow townspeople, expose their bigotry, and encourage them to imagine the possibility of racial equality. 

       This novel shows racial inequality in Alabama Maycomb between the white and black men. It shows different races that indicates their social level and their different ways of living in Alabama Maycomb. Curiosity, adventure, social inequality issues and family relationship that occupies in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird that wakes the readers because of its issues inside.