Harper Lee claims that To Kill a Mockingbird is not autobiographical and that should be respected. Events in the book take place during the great depression, a devastating economic downturn that lasted most of the 1930′s, and our narrator, Scout, is approximately eight years old, four years the junior of her older brother Jem. The [...]
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Favorite Moments in To Kill a Mockingbird
2 January 2007 – 6:59 pm
The Power(s) of Paratexts in/on My Copy of To Kill Mockingbird Epigraph: “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once”—Charles Lamb. A delightfully humorous statement by itself, particularly if one has come to know contentious lawyers.
