Author: Harper Lee

I’ve seen the movie based on this book several times but I’m not sure I ever read the book. But I must have because it was on Mum and Dad’s bookshelf from 1961.

From what I remember about the movie it focused on the trial of a black man who was accused of raping a young white woman. The trial is certainly a part of the book but what I found more interesting was the awareness of the children, Jem and Scout, of the differences between the lives of the black families, the “white trash”, and the more prosperous whites.

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