To Kill a Mockingbird SparkNotes（《杀死一只知更鸟》SparkNotes）.pdfVIP

This PDF has been brought to you by . . . To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee ©2007, 2002 by SparkNotes All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. sparknotes is a registered trademark of SparkNotes llc SparkNotes A Division of Barnes Noble 76 Ninth Avenue New York, NY 10011 USA Context Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, a sleepy small town similar in many ways to Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Like Atticus Finch, the father of Scout, the nar- rator and protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee’s father was a lawyer. Among Lee’s childhood friends was y n the future novelist and essayist Truman Capote, from whom she drew inspiration for the character Dill. a y . b r These personal details notwithstanding, Lee maintains that To Kill a Mockingbird was intended to portray not e r h o s i her own childhood home but rather a nonspecific Southern town. “People are people anywhere you put l m b r u them,” she declared in a 1961 interview. o p f y e Yet the book’s setting and characters are not the only aspects of the story shaped by events that occurred n h t a n m during Lee’s childhood. In 1931, when Lee was five, nine young black men were accused of raping two white i o , r d