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To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother, Jem, in 1930's Alabama. Through their neighborhood meanderings and the example of their father, Atticus Finch, they grow to understand that the world isn't always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems.
Atticus, is a respected and upstanding lawyer in small Maycomb County. When he takes on a case that pits innocent, black Tom Robinson against two dishonest white people, Atticus knows that he will lose, but he has to defend the man or he can't live with himself. The case is the biggest thing to hit Maycomb County in years and it turns the whole town against Atticus. Scout and Jem are forced to bear the slurs against their father and watch with shock and disillusionment as their fellow townspeople convict an obviously innocent man because of his race.
Through the events of those two years, Scout learns that no matter their differences or peculiarities, the people of the world and of Maycomb County are all people. No one is lesser or better than anyone else because they're all people. She realizes that once you get to know them, most people are good and kind no matter what they seem like on the outside.
Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. She grew up in the small southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville. Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprieter, was a lawyer who also served on the state legislature. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and she enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmates and neighbors who provided the basis of the characters in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.