BOOK CHOICE

I chose 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as I knew it was a classic however I had never read or studied it before. To start off I watched the film then read lots of summaries and what people thought about it. 
I found out many interesting facts about the author Harper Lee. Her first name is her grandmother's name spelled backwards. One of Lee's closest childhood friends was another famous author - Truman Capote, they stayed friends and Lee actually helped Capote in his research for his non fiction masterpiece - In Cold Blood. Before writing she pursued a career in Law. TKaM was voted as the best of the century. The most interesting fact I found out was that there are many parallels between Harper Lee and the her character Scout Finch. 

The main themes in the book are:
- The coexistence of good and evil
- The importance of moral education
- The existence of social inequality

The main symbols in the book are:
- mockingbirds
- boo radley

The key events are:

Scout and Jem found items in the knot hole of the Radley's tree.

Jem, Scout and Dill went to Boo Radley's.

Miss Maudie's house burnt down.

Atticus shot Tim Johnson's dog, revealing to Scout and Jem that he had the deadest shot in Maycomb County.

Cal takes Jem and Scout to church.  

Jem cut up all of Mrs. Dubose's flowers.  

Mrs. Dubose died. 

The trial of Tom Robinson took place.

Dill had a drink of Mr. Raymond's mysterious liquid, which everyone thought was whiskey (due to the fact that they thought the only reason he would marry a black woman was because he was drunk) but turned out to be coca-cola, representing how much racism there was at the time.

Tom Robinson was declared guilty, but was really innocent.

Bob Ewell spit in Atticus' face.

Tom Robinson got shot 17 times trying to escape from jail.

Atticus gets a lot of food at his door step.

On the way home from the Halloween pagaent, Scout and Jem were attacked by Bob Ewell, but Boo Radley killed Bob and saved the kids.

Scout walks Boo home, but never saw him again due to his shyness and childlike behavior. 

List of 10 adjectives that describe the book:

racial injustice
prejudice
innocence
childhood
morality
courage
compassion
exciting
triumph
sad