To Kill a Mockingbird

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Writers: Christopher Sergel Harper Lee

Context

To Kill a Mockingbird is a stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s landmark 1960 novel of the same name. Based on Lee’s childhood in Monroeville, Alabama, the novel takes place between 1933 and 1935 in the fictional Maycomb, Alabama. Narrator Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, six years old at the beginning of the book, describes her summers with her brother, Jem, and friend, Dill. Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus, is a respected lawyer in Maycomb. When Tom Robinson, a black man, is accused of raping a young white woman, the judge appoints Atticus to represent him. The novel explores themes of racism,

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