To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book mostly about the cruel ways of racism. The book was written in 1957, but was influenced by the Scottsboro incident of 1931, when two women accused nine young black men of raping them. To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1961, and just before the Civil Rights Movement. The main character in the story is nine-year-old Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, and it was …showed first 75 words of 402 total…

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