TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.THE ORIGINAL TEXTShoot all the Bluejays you want if you can hit em but remember its a sin to kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.Read the sequel to this book: Go Set a WatchmanHarper Lee announced she would be releasing a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird this summer 55 years after her debut. Go Set a Watchman completed in the mid50s but lost for more than half a century was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adultNo one ever forgets this bookSomeone rare has written this very fine novel a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest most authentic humour. A touching book: and so funny so likeableThere is humour as well as tragedy in this book besides its faint note of hope for human nature: and it is delightfully written1WHEN HE WAS nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed and Jems fears of never being able to play football were assuaged he was seldom selfconscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right: when he stood or walked the back of his hand was at rightangles to his body his thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldnt have cared less so long as he could pass and punt.When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all but Jem who was four years my senior said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.I said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing it really began with Andrew Jackson. If General Jackson hadnt run the Creeks up the creek Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama and where would we be if he hadnt? We were far too old to settle an argument with a fistfight so we consulted Atticus. Our father said we were both right.Being Southerners it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. All we had was Simon Finch a furtrapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess. In England Simon was irritated