Small town America, quiet nothing-to-do Maycomb Alabama in the Deep South, during the Depression years of the early 1930s, is the setting for Harper Lee's Pullitzer Prize winning novel "To Kill A Mockingbird".
A young girl, Scout, is the narrator and the characters and the story all come through her. Her father, the upstanding town lawyer Atticus Finch, teaches both his children and the ignorant about ethics and the art of compromise.
The book is of central importance to American art and culture in the 20th. Century, as is the Oscar winning film, starring Gregory Peck. It's about how hard times can bring out the worst in people, and the best in other people, and through Scout's eyes America woke up to its treatment of African Americans.
It's a sin to kill a mockingbird. All it does is sing and give us pleasure. It doesn't harm anyone.
Watch the introduction below:
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