Harper+Lee

=Nelle Harper Lee =

=-About Harper Lee = She was born in Monroeville, Alabama 1926. Monroeville is her hometown which all the adventures that take place in [|To Kill a Mockingbird] take place. =-Monroevile, Alabama = As of the census of 2000, there are 6,862 people, 2,687 households, and 1,870 families residing in the city of Monroeville. The racial makeup of the city is 53.09% White, 44.84% Black and/or African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.15% from other races, and 0.96% from two or more races. 0.90% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. In the city the population is spread out with 27.7% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who are 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there are 82 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 76.4 males. 20.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 29.0% of those under the age of 18 and 19.2% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. The main attraction of Monroevile and Monroe County is, oddly enough, Harper Lee and her book, __To Kill a Mockingbird__. The book and it's author draws in 30,000 visitors a year. High season for Monroeville is May, when the Monroe County Heritage Museums puts on a stage version of __To Kill a Mockingbird__. The event is a morality play of sorts, a migration of pilgrims paying homage to the powerful sermon of the story. "People around here actually quote lines from the book like scripture," =-Why do we still read __To Kill a Mockingbird__? = We still read __To Kill a Mockingbird__ today because it shows the history of what once was. Also, while the book was mainly an entertainment novel, there are many great grammatical usage and themes in the book that work perfectly so that teachers can use as a book to teach with. As Charles J. Shields wrote in the book [|Mockingbird a portrait of Harper Lee] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">,<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> "<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Forty-six years after it<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">s publication, the         <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">novel still draws almost a million readers annually. Maybe that is because its lessons of human dignity and respect for others remain fundamental and <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">universal. "       <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">We also still read this book because in the book the young characters in Lee's novel are crossing the bridge from childhood to Adulthood, just like the majority of high school students. Finally many teachers use this book for the in-class discussions that encourage students to think about moral and intellectual issues.      <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> =<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">**-How does the novel relate to Harper Lee?**      = <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">__To Kill A Mockingbird__ is a story written by Harper Lee. She wrote this book with her life in mind, and all her friends and family. In the book Harper Lee places herself into the book as a young girl nam <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">ed “Scout” and her brother Edwin Lee is “Jem”. She also has her Father AC Lee or Amasa Coleman Lee is “Atticus” and her best friend Truman Capote is “Dill”. She gave her family in the book th <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">e last name “Finch”, which was was given this name because her mother Francis Finch had that as her maiden name. She did not want to forget about her when Harper Lee wrote the book, becau <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">se she wanted a dedication to her mother who passed away when she was young. Harper Lee based all the characters in the book on her family, friends and some of neighbors. She pulled the good and bad times together within the book to create an interesting plot. The learning experiences made an amazing book =<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> = =<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Why __To Kill a Mockingbird__? = <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Nelle Harper Lee wanted to tell the world about how her life was when she was little, and to tell the world about her father’s great wisdom. Harper Lee wrote __To Kill a Mockingbird__ to show everyone about being prejudice and about being racist, and that all that will amount to nothing in the end. She wanted to tell the world about being a young child and seeing the world change in front of her. Harper Lee wrote this book through a child’s eyes. She wrote this book to show that the world [|wasn’t equal even in the courts]. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Nelle wrote this book to show us that back than people didn’t care about what you had to say all they cared about was the color of your skin, and if it was a white mans' word against a black mans' word than the white mans' word would win. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">

media type="youtube" key="W33kkZNiLEA&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"<span style="FONT-SIZE: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> =<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**-What influenced the happenings in __To Kill a Mockingbird__** = <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> During the 1930's in which Harper Lee was living her child hood, many substantial events occurred. The [|Scottsboro Boys Case] happened at the time that she was the age of Scout. Supposedly Scout represents her in the book. The book reflects all the political and racial moods of the time, as well as most southern occurrences during the 1930s. Her father became Atticus Finch. Her agent helped with the book adding more legal procedures to the book and much more deductive logic. Her good friend, [|Capote], became the Dill in __To Kill a Mockingbird.__ Harper Lee was known as a girl who bullied all the boys, hence the reason Scout is more a tom boy and is semi-“vicious”. Sonny Boular became Boo Radley as he was exactly like Boo, staying in his house that had an as weak structure as the Boo Radley’s house had. Miss <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Stephanie was a nosy person around the neighborhood in her childhood. The Finch Family was named after her mother's maiden name, Finch. =<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**-What values did Harper Lee have?** = <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> Harper Lee had many values. She valued black people and stood up for them, she treated them as her equals, and to the elders they were her superiors. For people that angered her, she would make fun of them and/or beat them up; she was known as a bully. Many people that knew her thought “her girlhood was corrupted by her adult sensibilities”. She had feeling for her friends and looked up to her dad. She was generally a nice kid, but she was mentally old for her age.

=<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">**Why was __To Kill a Mockingbird__ so popular?** = <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">__To Kill a Mockingbird__ is popular because it is about race relations. It is a story that shows racial relations and injustices that minority groups suffered during that time. Racial relations and tensions have been going on for a very long time. It is the same problems we have today, as it was when Harper Lee wrote the book in the 50s as it was at the time of the story. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">There are other themes to the book- bravery and cowardice; compassion, conscience, societal expectations. Everyone can relate to __To Kill a Mockingbird__ at all different levels. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> =<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">-How was __To Kill a Mockingbird__ first received? = <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by Columbia University in New York City since 1917, on the recommendation of a Pulitzer Prize Board. Fourteen prizes are given in journalism. The award is named after[|Joseph Pulitzer], American newspaper publisher, who endowed the journalism school and the awards
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Most of the themes remain relevant.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">There are lots of themes that encourage kid at any age.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Not only are there relevant words and themes, but it also teaches about history. [[image:http://bp2.blogger.com/_acbFcMXPHxs/R_qDOg1sJ_I/AAAAAAAABOw/3RZ400l1NPQ/s400/NewsdayPulitzer.jpg width="288" height="301" align="right"]]
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">The book lets you step into each character and learn about them.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Harper Lee's first Novel made history by:
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Being chosen by three book clubs in it's first year of publication,
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Winning a [|Pulitzer Prize] (See below),
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> Going into fourteen printings,
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"> And __To Kill a Mockingbird__ spent 100 weeks on the best sellers list.

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