Book· 1960· Historical

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird: 2 recorded works trace back to it.

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Jake Brigance

Book · 1989

InfluenceHIGH

A Time to Kill, the first Jake Brigance novel, was influenced by To Kill a Mockingbird: a white lawyer in a small Southern town defends a black man before a white jury, with the racial roles of the crime reversed. Grisham was later the first winner of the Harper Lee Prize.

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Capote

Film · 2005

InfluenceLOW

The film names it: Harper Lee travels with Capote to Kansas, and the success of To Kill a Mockingbird and its film runs through Capote as a counterpoint to his own unfinished book.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.

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