To Kill A Mockingbird Modernism

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. This novel is written as a Modernist novel a type of fiction coming of age story. To Kill a Mocking bird explores the concept of moral courage, integrity and compassion. This novel accurately conveys the astrosphere of the time and many cultural attributes of the American South at the time, but also shows how the great depression effected small towns and race relations in the Deep South. The interesting literary period is the fact it was written and published during the civil rights era. This story is based on real life events in the life of Harper Lee, the author. Her father defended several innocent African American men during the famous “Scottsboro Trials”

Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem’s father, a lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama. A widower, almost fifty years old. Atticus is a classical hero because of the way he responds to the challenge of rearing two small children by treating

Interestingly, Harper Lee decided to set the novel in the depression era of the 1930’s. I believe the novel represents two historical time periods. The period in which the novel was written 1960’s civil rights movements and Jim Crow laws. This is an interesting period for white writers in America using blacks in their novels. Laws in the deep south where passed effectively creating two separated societies; one black and one white. No matter how the authors moral campus pointed their literature was filled with the racial slurs and ties the bound the era. As a matter of effect for the time or just not having any other term to describe African Americans. This is also reflected like a mirror in the 1930’s setting of the novel. Different era same literary effect of blacks in literature. In the novel to kill a mocking bird the word nigger is used over 50