As if the celestial bodies controlling the courses of human events possessed some strange sense of irony, the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, has in recent years, become a mockingbird itself. ... ""Tis a sin- Atticus, a character in the story would say. ... To Kill A Mockingbird is a compassionate, dramatic, deeply moving novel that contains many valuable morals and life's lessons about justice, courage, integrity, perseverance, and equality, while at the same time opposing racism and discrimination. ... Even more baffling, is that other books on the Bureau Reading List using th...

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"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a famed novel written by Harper Lee. ... By definition, the first-person narrator technique refers to the method that is applied by having a major character relating his or her story. ... The three effects that I have listed above are characteristics of the first-person narrator method and they are responsible for enhancing my understanding of the story. ... Scout's honest to goodness description of the many characters in the novel helped create a successful build-up to the climax of the novel and did not, at any pint, lead me astray. In my opinion, Lee had ...

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