On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.In CliffsNotes on To Kill a Mockingbird, you explore Harper Lee's literary masterpiece a novel that deals with Civil Rights and racial bigotry in the segregated southern United States of the 1930s. Told through the eyes of the memorable Scout Finch, the novel tells the story of her father, Atticus, as he hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man accused of raping and beating a white woman.

Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Scout's coming of age journey. Critical essays give you insight into racial relations in the South during the 1930s, as well as a comparison between the novel and its landmark film version. Other features that help you study include


Character analyses of the main characters
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
A section on the life and background of Harper Lee
A review section that tests your knowledge
A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
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99 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published June 12,2000

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April 17,2025
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Read through this pretty quickly after I finished the actual book. It did bring up a few points I had not caught while reading the book.
April 17,2025
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When fall comes, Scout enters the first grade. Because she has already taught herself how to read and write, Scout finds school a disappointment. Both she and Jem are intrigued, however, by the discovery that someone has been leaving small gifts in a knothole in one of the large oak trees on the corner of the Radley property.
April 17,2025
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I like reading this book it is so quick and how each person react to certain things and the book is fascinating.
April 17,2025
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It helped so much to read this simultaneously with the book. I felt I was getting a much deeper experience because Castleman pointed out some major themes of the book that I wasn't noticing, i.e., bravery, education vs school, trust, gender, honesty vs lies. I was so busy reading the details that I wasn't thinking of these things.
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