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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behaviour - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humour and pathos.
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Summary of "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

SOURCE: Savvy English Text Guides (2016), posted on YouTube, [11:24 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/g7mpEMW3Yi0

Exploring the Text: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In this programme, experts discuss the way the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' works and examining how it has achieved its status.

SOURCE: Clickview (2005), Rated E, [32:06 mins], URL: https://clickv.ie/w/xsCp

To Kill a Mockingbird, Part 1 - Crash Course Literature 210

John will cover a bit about Harper Lee's personal life, (seeing as this novel has some autobiographical elements) and her long association with Truman Capote, who figures as a character in the book. You'll get an overview of the plot, and we'll talk a bit about Mockingbird as an example of bildungsroman (again(man, this description is heavy on parentheses)) and Southern Gothic, and look into the novel as a commentary on the racism and patriarchy of the Alabama in which Harper Lee grew up.

SOURCE: Crash Course Literature (2014), posted on YouTube, [11:54 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/3xM8hvEE2dI

Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird: Crash Course Literature 211

John teaches you about race, class, and gender in the American south, as seen through the eyes of Scout and Harper Lee. John will talk about how Scout learns about these aspects of the social order as she interacts with the people of the town, learns from Calpurnia, watches the trial of Tom Robinson, and endures the attack of Bob Ewell.

SOURCE: Crash Course Literature (2014), posted on Youtube, [11:36 mins] URL: https://youtu.be/mDS32LEe1Ss

To Kill a Mockingbird [Movie] (1962)

Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman.

SOURCE: ABC2 , posted on ClickView, Rated: PG, [2:07:40], URL: https://clickv.ie/w/ysCp