To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including childhood, injustice and racism. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 31-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of Harper Lee
• Presentation of To Kill a Mockingbird
• Summary of To Kill a Mockingbird
• Character study
  • Scout (Jean Louise Finch)
  • Jem (Jeremy Finch)
  • Dill (Charles Baker Harris)
  • Atticus Finch
  • Calpurnia
  • Aunt Alexandra
  • The neighborhood
• Analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Racial segregation in the United States
  • Writing through the eyes of a child
  • A coming-of-age story: from blissful childhood to disillusionment

About To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird describes a few months in the life of a precociously intelligent 7-year-old girl as her father, a prominent local lawyer, defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. Through the innocent and somewhat naïve narrator, Lee draws attention to the racism, intolerance and stupidity of the adult world in the Alabama of the 1930s and condemns the injustice of the legal system.

To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, and is now considered a classic of American literature. It has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 40 languages.

About Harper Lee

Harper Lee is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which was first published in 1960 and has since sold over 40 million copies worldwide. She grew up in Alabama, and was a childhood friend of the acclaimed writer Truman Capote, who dedicated his novel In Cold Blood to her. In spite of the success of her first novel, Lee chose to live away from the limelight and rarely spoke publicly. For this reason, readers across the world were excited to learn of the publication of a second book, Go Set a Watchman, over 50 years after her first novel came out. Lee died in 2016, at the age of 89.