To Kill A Mockingbird

Author's Background

• One of her best friends was a writer-to-be, truman copote
• Her mother suffered from mental illness.
• Born on april 26,1926 in monroeville, alabama
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• Her father owned part or the local newspaper.

Brief Plot recap

• Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping mayella ewell
• He killed trying to escape from prison
• jem and scout become targets of bob ewell who tried to kill them on halloween
• shows up saving them

reasons for/why banning

• offensive words
• racism
• age inapropriate
• profanity
• used the N word 43 times

My opinion of banning

• 5
• the beginning was very bland and was exciting.
• towards the end it got good and inspirational
• i think it shouldn't have been banned but then think that it should have.

Banning quotes

• first challenged as a 'filthy' and 'trashy' novel
• A parent object said n word
• Words such as d word and n word are used over and over which many find offensive.
• Challenged as a ''filthy, trashy'' novel

similar court cases

• Of mice and men
• lord of the flies
• the adventures of huckleberry fin
• one flew over the cuckoos nest
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

works cited

• "WHY WAS IT BANNED?" To Kill a Mockingbird and Censorship. N.p., 30 Nov. 2011. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.
• Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird. New York: Warner, 1982. Print.
• "To KIll A Mockingbird." Title Peek. Follett Destiny, 8 Sept. 2015. Web. 8 Sept. 2015. .
• To kill a mockingbird