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In CliffsNotes on To Kill a Mockingbird, you explore Harper Lee?s literary masterpiece ?? a novel that deals with Civil Rights and racial bigotry in the segregated southern United States of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of the memorable Scout Finch, the novel tells the story of her father, Atticus, as he hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man accused of raping and beating a white woman.

Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Scout?s coming of age journey. Critical essays give you insight into racial relations in the South during the 1930s, as well as a comparison between the novel and its landmark film version. Other features that help you study include

• Character analyses of the main characters
• A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
• A section on the life and background of Harper Lee
• A review section that tests your knowledge
• A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites

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Gain new perspective of Harper Lee's coming-of-age story set in a racially divided Southern town with CliffsNotes on To Kill a Mockingbird! With this study guide, you'll get to know Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Scout, the 6-year-old tomboy on the verge of a life-altering event. CliffsNotes on To Kill a Mockingbird also provides you with expert commentary, a character map, and a critical essay. What's more, you'll get background information about Harper Lee as well as suggestions as to why, after winning a Pulitzer Prize, this was to be her one and only novel.

A coming-of-age story set in the South, this novel is rich with subjects for conversation. Narrated by Scout, a young girl on the brink of a life-changing event, To Kill a Mockingbird was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1960.

CliffsNotes helps you understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, as well as the social and cultural perspectives of the author.

2000-12-17 An extrememly good and interseting book.

Harpers Lee's only book "To Kill a Mockingbird" showed to me the talant that was wasted because I felt this book showed great intelligence of ceative and a balance of seriousness. The book is situated around the life of the narrator Scout. She is a young girl living in the South of America in a racist town called Maycomb. From the town she learns of the racial predjudice towards negroes when her father, Atticus, takes on a challenging trial of defending one. And so the trouble begins, the opposition of Atticus. He's a drunk "bum" living on a skip who challanges Scouts and her brothers maturity as they cope with the dangerous events they face. The book follows the two kids as they grow up in Maycomb, and Harper Lee brings across the humour that the kids have. We follow their maturity, right upto an emotional ending where they discover the true facts on their "scary" neighbour Boo Radley, their childlike "Boogy man." This book is brilliant throughout, and the ending is absolutely supurb. Buy this book or rent it out, a classic.