To Kill a Mockingbird 杀死一只知更鸟(英文版).docVIP

Harper Lee, the contemporary American writer, is noticeable for her great novel To Kill a Mockingbird which has been welcomed and loved by readers since its publication. This novel focuses on the trial of the black man Tom though the eyes of the little girl Scout who experiences innocence to mature in order to display the social reality and assail the social evils such as the social hierarchy, racial discrimination and the dark side of human nature, at the same time, the author convinces the reader that there is still good and justice in human being. While To Kill a Mockingbird has been a bestseller that won reader’s love since it was published in 1960, and the book received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. In 1999, it was named the best novel of the century in an investigation launched by the library magazine. Harper ? Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, but the study of the novel is relatively few, in view of this, the paper tries to analyze To Kill a Mockingbird from the wide range of influence on American Literature－Gothic feature to allow more readers to appreciate the charm of the novel. All in all, the use of Gothic elements in Harper ? Lee To Kill a Mockingbird enhances the readability of the novel, giving their works a special artistic charm and making it handed down among the enduring masterpiece. Harper Lee is an American writer, who earns her fame worldwide by writing the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which is prized by the novelist and essayist Truman Capote: “Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A touching book…so likeable.” 1 Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1962, in Monroeville, Alabama, whose father was a lawyer. One of Lee’s childhood friends was the future novelist and essayist Truman Capote who lived with relatives next door to Lee’s family. During her undergraduate studies at the University of Alabama, Lee wrote for several stu