Effectiveness of Harper Lee in to Kill a Mockingbird

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How effective is Harper lee’s writing style in conveying the thematic concerns in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’? In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, written in the 1950s after the Depression, Harper Lee displays the life of an American all based in Maycomb, Alabama 1930s and her perspective character is as a little girl called Jean "Scout" Finch. When Harper Lee wrote ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, she highlighted the social injustice of the morality and ethics, education throughout the town and racism. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a study of human morality, which is the ethics of where people are individuals or follow the community. It also incorporates the moral education that lacks in Alabama from the lack of money given from the government during the Depression and the racism factor of segregation between the African Americans and the White Americans where the White Americans held injustice towards the African Americans for their colour and their ethnicity. The book effectively shows the concerns of reality during the Depression. Harper Lee’s writing style effectively conducts in the book, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, as it shows us characters who display their individuality or communalisation in their true form when presented. For example, Atticus Finch, Scout’s father, is displayed as the character that supports all the African Americans in the book as well as the poorer people in the town. He is portrayed as a person who is morally consistent in his beliefs and he stands for his beliefs compared to the rest of the community, who all believe that he’s wrong in his aspects and beliefs. "Atticus, you must be wrong...." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong...." "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

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