To Ban a Mockingbird

To Ban a Mockingbird

According to the original Times review, author Harper Lee has written her first novel with all the tactical brilliance and none of the standard topics for Southern writers. Teaching many truths about Southern life and little girls, she shows an account of right and wrong. Scout Finch has become fiction’s most appealing child thanks to Lee (Times).

In To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee uses memorable characters to talk about civil rights and racism. Through the eyes of Scout Finch you learn about her father Atticus Finch. As an Southern attorney who hopelessly tries to prove the innocence of a black man unjustly accused of rape, has to put his children through many hard times. As well as assumptions and curiosity about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and her brother from being killed (Cliff Notes).

To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the top challenged books due to its racial slurs, serious

situations, profanity, and blunt dialog that conflicted with the values of many communities. Many readers find the term “nigger” in its pages as an offensive and hurtful term. This word is the main reason for the contriversy in schools across America that have banned it from their libraries. Another is for the serious situations delt with throughout the book that Scout witnesses, such as rape and racial hate crimes. These events bring up a lot of contriversy due to the fact that these subjects are very soft spots on many individuals. These crimes are all very real and painful for some readers which is why it is often chalanged or banned for the sake of someone els’s comfort.

The New Yorker and Times magazine gave it rave reviews upon release. In 1961, its first year, To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitze Prize for fiction (Banned.) Harper Lee’s novel hit the best sellers list and still sells hundreds of thousands of copies a year. To Kill a Mockingbird has been made into a major movie and became a staple of high school...