Novel Review - To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) This discusses the themes, plot, characters, and critics of the novel.

<Tab/>To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee in the mid-1950s, is a book of great content. Throughout the story, the novel explores such genres as coming-of-age story, social drama, courtroom drama and Southern drama.
<Tab/>The story takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, in 1933-1935. Scout Finch, a rather tomboyish girl, lives with her brother, Jem, and her widowed father, Atticus. The nation is suffering of the Great Depression, but Atticus Finch, a prominent lawyer, is able to maintain a relatively good quality of life for the Finch fa…