title: The Story Behind Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (History in Literature)
author:  Bryon Giddens-White 
description: Bryon Giddens-White is a Heinemann-Raintree author.
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  Synopsis
  
  
  “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin
  to kill a mockingbird”. This is a lawyer’s advice to his children as he
  defends the real mockingbird of this story — a black man charged with raping a
  white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.
  
  
  
  
  
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  **TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD**
  
  
  **by Harper Lee**
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright (C) 1960 by Harper Lee
  
  
  Copyright (C) renewed 1988 by Harper Lee
  
  
  
  
  
  **for Mr. Lee and Alice**
  
  
  **in consideration of Love & Affection**
  
  
  **Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.**
  
  
  **Charles Lamb**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **PART ONE**
  
  
  **Chapter 1**
  
  
  
  
  
  When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the
  elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football
  were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was
  somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand
  was at right angles to his body, his th