Nelle Harper Lee

 “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee is an award winning author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” - the only book that she had published yet for a long time and still well-known until today. Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama; youngest of the four children.

     In February 2015, aged 88, after a lifetime of maintaining that she would never publish another novel, Lee's lawyer released a statement confirming publication of a second novel, Go Set a Watchman, a novel written in the mid 1950s and which served as the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was released in July 2015. (Source: en.wikipedia.org)

On her book To Kill a Mockingbird…

     She’s one of my favorite authors in the modern classic genre.  I think that she’s really amazing when she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. The story was narrated by Scout (Jean Louise Finch), the 6 year-old daughter of Atticus Finch. The setting was in Alabama, year 1950, when Negros were treated as slaves in the South.

      It has lessons that are necessarily important in real life. That book taught me to be courageous. And its message really stilled in me that if you believe that you’re right, stand up for it and do what you have to - as the protagonist Atticus Finch did in the story. Atticus was a lawyer , defended a negro (those times, a Negro was considered an inferior in the society- nothing but a slave and that shouldn’t have given an equal treatment in terms of justice and race) even his society condemned him for doing  so. TKAM really inspired me to fight for what is right even if it’s against all the odds’ against the society, against the irrational rules of the culture. It conveys important messages that we needed here in our country.

Mockingbird? Why kill a mockingbird?

    The story revealed that a mockingbird symbolized innocence. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” –TKAMB. Thus, it’s a sin to judge or kill an innocent person just because of his race or culture.

     I really love the book because it tells a lot of things about reality. Many people are being judged, couldn’t have a fair justice and or even killed. Therefore this book is an eye-opener to all of us. TKAMB is a very good book for all of us who are blinded by the society.

Whats new for Lee?

   

          Harper Lee has published her second book this year. A sequel of TKAMB, the title is Go Set a Watchman. The title comes from Isaiah 21:6: "For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." It alludes to Jean Louise Finch's view of her father, Atticus Finch, as the moral compass ("watchman") of Maycomb, and has a theme of disillusionment, as she realizes the extent of the bigotry in her home community. (Source: en.wikipedia.org)

I promise to myself that I will read this book too. I’m excited because I think it’s as good as TKAMB.