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= To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee =
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Harper Lee (Nelle Harper Lee) is an American writer, best known for the novel 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' published in 1961. Lee was born and raised in Monroeville Alabama. she attended Monroe County High School and then went on to study at Huntingdon College. After writing several long stories Lee found a publisher and gave him the manuscript for To Kill a Mocking Bird, it was then published in 1960. ======

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird is a story about innocence, knowlege, prejudice and courage. In the beginning the main character, Scout, starts out to be a very immature child not knowing the prejuidice times around her, as the story goes on she gains knowledge of these times by fellow kids around her accusing her dad of being a "nigger lover" which then, it was an insult. Her dad was being courageous of a black man being faulsey accused of raping a white girl. Her dad, Atticus, is a crimnal defense attorney only doing his job and not discriminating against this man. The line in the book "Shoot, all the bluejays you want, but remember its a sin to kill mockingbird" is referring to the black man in the story, Tom. He symbolises a mockingbird because all mockingbirds do is sing for our enjoyment and stay out of harms way, so if you kill them its a sin. He is the mockingbird in the story and all he does is stay out of harms way and is accused of a crime and in the end is eventually guilty and dies.
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 * Jean Louise “Scout” Finch
 * Atticus Finch
 * Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch
 * Arthur “Boo” Radley
 * Bob Ewell
 * Charles Baker “Dill” Harris
 * Miss Maudie Atkinson
 * Mayella Ewell
 * Tom Robinson

The Drums are echoing throughout place de la greve and people are cheering in anticipation for the blade to drop, but the air feels empty and silent. The smell of stale blood and alcohol stings the air and is making my head spin. I feel anxious for the Aristos and my heart is pounding out of my chest. I can imagine myself feeling the hopelessness and fear that the victims of the guillotine building up and up before the blade finally drops, and people celebrate your horrific death as your blood spurts and the life drains out of you, and I replay it in my head over and over as a sinking feeling drops in my stomach.
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Suddenly I am snapped back into reality as someone brushes against me when they jump and scream “DEATH TO THE ARISTOS”. I don’t want to cheer, I don’t even want to be here, but I jump and scream and jump as well because I have to, If I didn’t I would soon be a victim to this horrific event as well.

I lean against a wall a bit out from the crowd and try not to breathe thought my nose, but the air has made my mouth taste like a corpse and I have to force down my vomit so that no one knows I feel this way. I eventually decide that I must get food so I push my way through the screaming crowd to the food kart where I get a piece of cheap meat to drown the taste of blood that lingers in my mouth. As I bite into it, the executer picks up the Aristos head and again every one chants “DEATH TO THE ARISTOS”. A pit of fear and pain boils in my stomach as I cant take it any more and vomit down the side of the wall.

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