READING CLUB WITH HARPER LEE

el martes, 7 January at 20:00 hours a new meeting of the Club of the reading Santa Eulària des Riu takes place. This time, con to kill a mockingbird, of a novel 1960 the American writer Harper Lee. The novel is inspired by the author's observations about his family and their neighbors, and in one incident near his town 1936, When I had 10 year old.

definitely, a classic of 20th century literature. de hecho, It is the book Americans trust most after the Bible.. It was Harper Lee's first and only published novel until July 2015, when it was published Go and set a sentinel, and which narrates the childhood of the protagonist of to kill a mockingbird.

Jean Louise Finch recalls a time from her childhood in Alabama, when his father, Atticus, decided to defend in court a black man accused of raping a white woman. initiation novel, To kill a mockingbird shows a community, that of the southern United States during the decade of 1930, dominated by racial prejudices, distrust towards what is different and the rigidity of family and neighborhood ties, as well as
for a judicial system with hardly any guarantees for the black population.

The novel was adapted to film in 1962 with eponymous title by director Robert Mulligan, scripted by Horton Foote. got 10 Oscar nominations, of which he received three.

As a curiosity, The manuscript was rejected by ten publishers until an experienced editor at a small label saw something no one had seen before..

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