First, Paula Byers stated that Nelle Harper Lee is a famous author, born on April 28, 1926, in Monroe, Alabama (220). Lee’s birth parents are Amasa Coleman and Frances Lee (Byers 220). She based Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird’s main character off of her Father (Byers 220). She also happens to be a relative of the famous General Robert E. Lee (Byers 220). Lee was an attendant of Huntingdon College, an all women’s private school located in Montgomery, Alabama (Byers 220). She attended this college from 1944-1945 (Byers 220). During the year of 1945, she transferred to the University of Alabama, where she was a student for five years (Byers 220). While she attended this college, she took part in a humor magazine called Rammer-Jammer (Byers
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“‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’” stated Isaac Saney in the Case against To Kill A Mockingbird (50). To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by The Great Depression, and also the Scottsboro incident of the 1930s (Byers 221). According to the article “Nelle Harper Lee” it is also “. . . widely regarded as one of the most sensitive and revealing portraits of the American South in contemporary literature.” The book is the anti-racist work of Atticus Finch (51 …show more content…
According to Fred Erisam in Southern Valves, Old and New, “. . . Lee did not overtly attack Southern human rights violations, she did not tell of Klansmen in white gowns terrorizing blacks; she portrayed no actual lynching. . .” nor did she label all of Alabama’s society as evil (11). What Lee did was “. . . provide the reader with enough evidence to conclude that racism itself is evil” (Erisam 11). Lee implies that black people are similar to pets, for they do not harm anything and should be treated with kindness. Lee compares African Americans to the beautiful Mockingbird (Saney 50). “But her way of doing so has been the source of criticism from all directions. Several have found the novel inadequate in its representation of the black perspective and some have thought Lee not ruthless enough in her condemnation of racism” (Erisam 11). Some have even claimed that her opinion of the southern white society as overly harsh (Erisam 11). “Black people were chided for being overly sensitive to the use of racial slurs and for its failure [to] appreciate the context and message of the novel” (Saney
“‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’” stated Isaac Saney in the Case against To Kill A Mockingbird (50). To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by The Great Depression, and also the Scottsboro incident of the 1930s (Byers 221). According to the article “Nelle Harper Lee” it is also “. . . widely regarded as one of the most sensitive and revealing portraits of the American South in contemporary literature.” The book is the anti-racist work of Atticus Finch (51 …show more content…
According to Fred Erisam in Southern Valves, Old and New, “. . . Lee did not overtly attack Southern human rights violations, she did not tell of Klansmen in white gowns terrorizing blacks; she portrayed no actual lynching. . .” nor did she label all of Alabama’s society as evil (11). What Lee did was “. . . provide the reader with enough evidence to conclude that racism itself is evil” (Erisam 11). Lee implies that black people are similar to pets, for they do not harm anything and should be treated with kindness. Lee compares African Americans to the beautiful Mockingbird (Saney 50). “But her way of doing so has been the source of criticism from all directions. Several have found the novel inadequate in its representation of the black perspective and some have thought Lee not ruthless enough in her condemnation of racism” (Erisam 11). Some have even claimed that her opinion of the southern white society as overly harsh (Erisam 11). “Black people were chided for being overly sensitive to the use of racial slurs and for its failure [to] appreciate the context and message of the novel” (Saney