Readers can gain a richer understanding of To Kill A Mockingbird when examining the author, Harper Lee’s life and times. Clearly, readers can see how Harper Lee’s book is one suggesting equality and of protest because in the video Southern Reaction 1960 it was demonstrated that “ “ (PBS). Readers can view how this protest for racial change is reflected in Atticus’s defense of Tom Robinson when he says, “The main reason [I defended Tom] is, if I didn’t, I wouldn’t be able to head up in town. . . I
Mark Twain and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are classic novels that come to one’s mind when one thinks of the use of child-narrators. While reading for the purpose of this paper, one of the first observations was the apparent lack of research material on the subject of the technique of child narration- this despite the popularity of the genre. There are a plethora of reasons for this occurring: often times, adult books or books meant for an adult