Nell Harper Lee Research Papers

836 Words4 Pages

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, and died on February 19, 2016, in Monroeville, Alabama.
Her father was a known for being a lawyer for the Alabama state legislature and also owned part of the local newspaper. Lee’s mother suffered from mental illness, so this situation makes her rarely leaving the house. There are rumors, and it is believed that she could have bipolar disorders. She is the youngest of four children, and she does not have a feminist influence and this makes her grew up as a tomboy. Lee’s closest childhood friend was a writer-to-be, Truman Capote. On high school she always seems to like English Literature after graduating in 1944, she attended Huntingdon College, which was entirely female in Montgomery. She always …show more content…

Within a few years, she was accepted into the university's faculty, which allowed students, who were not they were graduates to work without having graduated. As she was always very dedicated to her law studies, she was forced to leave her position as editor of Rammer Jammer. Over time, Lee retired from the university after in the first semester and moved north to follow her dreams of becoming a writer. While working with Tay Hohoff, an editor, he reads work in a manuscript, which take place in a small town in Alabama, which eventually became the novel "To Kill A …show more content…

The myths that emerged was based on the fact that this novel was written with the post-racial objective, but on the contrary, the book aims to show how the racism, or was a US scourge that resided firmly in the past and in the remaining racism represented a personal problem, more than the political one. The objective of the novel can reach an agreement that already exists in a sophisticated way, no matter what the plot revolves around racism or not. To Kill A Mockingbird is not a book of autobiography, but this novel does have aspects of his personal life, one of the most famous is that he grew up being a tomboy and the character Scout is a tomboy, other aspects that Harper Lee’s father was a lawyer, Atticus, Scout's father, was a lawyer, she had a friend, Truman Capote, very near who visited her on her vacations, which in this case entered the novel is her friend Dill. Another important aspect of when she read was small in her own neighborhood, news similar to that of Tom Robinson was given, it was from this situation that she got the inspiration to write about this tragedy of the novel. Lee also heard a case that a young man his friends went

Open Document