Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has remained enormously popular since its publication in 1960. ... Lee's first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was published during the Civil Rights movement and was hailed as an exposé of Southern racist society. ... To Kill a Mockingbird has endured as a mainstay on high school and college reading lists. ... The concept of justice is presented in To Kill a Mockingbird as an antidote to racial prejudice. ... " To Kill a Mockingbird explores themes of heroism and the idea of role models as well. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The most obvious forms of oppression in the fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are stereotyping, deprivation of rights and materials, and denial of equal access or opportunities. To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the 1930s during the Great Depression and post-World War Ⅱ. ... When it came to the court case in To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson was denied an equal opportunity to justice because he was colored, "In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins" (Lee). ... Stereotyping is yet another form o...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate