Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

This teaching model refers to the following text edition: Grand Central Publishing 1993, New York, ISBN 978-0-446-31078-9. A small town in Alabama during the Depression in the early 1930s: Lawyer Atticus Finch lives alone with his two children, Scout and Jem, who are trying to make contact with the mysterious Boo Radley in their neighborhood. The central theme of the 1960 novel is the trial of the Black man Tom, who is wrongfully accused of rape and defended by Atticus Finch. However, most of the townspeople harbor deep-seated prejudices against Black people and agree with Tom's conviction. After the trial, events escalate. Nelle Harper Lee's only published novel captivates with its impressive and poetically powerful depiction of the circumstances.