1. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Last pic was taken from a LA Times article on Lee on her 85th birthday
Information for this Power Point came from , and the Town of Knightdale, NC

2. Biography Born : Mother: Mother was Frances Cunningham Finch Father:
Growing up:
Other:

3. Writing the novel Family background:
Scottosboro Boys Trial: These incidents among others stirred Lee’s social conscience
Pulitzer Prize- 1961
Other information:

4. Format of the novel How is it told? 2 main plot lines:
Seeing “Boo” Radley, which highlights a theme of tolerance
Atticus and the case of Tom Robinson, which highlights the theme of injustice
Robert Duvall’s first movie role

5. 1930s Great Depression: Unemployment rate?: ________________
Scottsboro Boys Trial:
Jim Crow Laws:

6. Truman Capote- “Dill”
Lee and Capote became friends in kindergarten and were next door neighbors
Her father gave them an old typewriter which they used to write their own stories
In third grade he moved to New York City to live with his mother and stepfather but returned to Alabama in the summer

7. Mockingbirds “but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” - Atticus
I couldn’t find any information about any lore or myths about mockingbirds that didn’t stem from the novel

8. Small town life
Setting:
Jim Crow Laws:

9. Knightdale during this time (around 1951)
Our town was a very small town in the Depression, populated mostly by farmers with most of the town centered in what are now Main St. and First Avenue.