To Kill A Mockingbird intro NOTES

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To Kill A Mockingbird
intro
Harper Lee
• One of America's best loved novels
• Since 1960, the Pulitzer Prize winning
novel has been translated into more than
40 languages, continues to sell over
750,000 copies each year, and was
named the “Best Novel of the 20th
Century”
• To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most
widely read book dealing with race in
America
• the primary themes of To Kill a
Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the
destruction of innocence.
• Scholars have noted that Lee also
addresses issues of class, courage,
compassion, and gender roles
• lessons that emphasize tolerance and
decry prejudice
• More recently, British librarians ranked the
book ahead of the Bible as one "every
adult should read before they die".
• To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to
campaigns for removal from public
classrooms, often challenged for its use of
racial epithets.