Part one of term paper
Harper Lee was born in 1926 in a small town in the southern state of Alabama. She was a lawyer’s daughter, but she stated several times that To kill a mockingbird is not an autobio-graphical novel. It was written while Ms. Lee was working in New York, in the late fifties, and published in 1960. It became an instant success with both pub ...

Part two of term paper
... Harper Lee soon returned to Alabama, where she leads a solitary life, avoiding contact with media. The novel, written in the first-person form describes life in a small town in the American South (Maycomb County, Alabama) in the thirties, as seen through the eyes of the narra-tor, a young girl, Jean-Louise ‘Scout’ Finch. At the beginning, Scout is six years old. She is the daughter of the local lawyer, Atticus Finch, has a ten-year old brother, Jeremy ('Jem'), and is somewhat ...