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Harper Lee

* Written by Harper Lee * Completed the novel in 1957, published in 1960, just before the peak of American Civil Rights movement. * Setting: Maycomb, Alabama * 1930s

* The famous “Scottsboro Boys” case influenced Lee’s novel * Video

* Themes * It is sinful to inflict harm, whether it involves judgment or physical injury, on someone or something innocent. * The coexistence of good and evil * The importance of moral education * The existence of social inequality

* Motifs * Gothic details * Fire * Rabid dog * Small town life * Superficial kindness * Everybody’s business * One of your own

* Symbols * Mockingbirds * Boo Radley * The Snowman * One of your own

* Jim Crow Laws * Video