To kill a mocking bird is a novel written by Harper Lee,it was published in 1960.The novel come out with great success and won the Pulitzer prize in 1961. The story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the three years of the Great depression.In first person Scout Finch tells stories that happened in her childhood.

The story was set in the 1930s, three naive children’s life was changed by an unjust case.There are people that prejudiced and ignorant, people that are weak and innocent, there are also people that are kind and just like their lawyer father.The reality force them to understand the indifference and prejudice in the adult world, the the crisis and frustration of the truth, and also to understand: a bad person’s heart may be innocent.

On https://prezi.com,Lydia, Katharine and Lucas wrote:”The reason To Kill a Mockingbird is so popular is because of the amount of truth is actually in the text for the childhood of Harper and people at that time.”

Harper Lee grew up in Monroeville, Alabama, she put the setting of the novel in place where she grew up,and she based the characters on her self and her childhood friends, that makes the story felicitous to readers.

“Also the portrayal of racism through Tom Robinson makes this book very popular because it lets us know that Black people in the 1930’s have hardly any rights and even if they do nothing wrong they can easily be blamed for anything just because they are black.”

Mrs.McCathran said:”The other reason it is so popular is because it was published in 1960 around the same time Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading the Civil Rights movement in the United States. The book was particularly powerful because the country was beginning to move in the right direction with race relations and the book touched on that issue.”