“You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
To Kill A Mockingbird
Overview
Scout Finch , 6,and her older brother, Jem, live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Themes
Moral Education, Good and Evil, Social Inequality
“Go Set A Watchman”
“As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with god. You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, with a man's failings.”
Go Set a Watchman
Overview
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, now 26, returns from New York to the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, on her annual two-week visit. She is met by her childhood sweetheart and suitor, Henry "Hank" Clinton, who works for her father, Atticus, a lawyer and former state legislator. Jack, her father's brother, a retired doctor, is her mentor. Their sister, Aunt Alexandra, runs the house since Calpurnia's retirement. The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) are introduced as sources of controversy in the community.
Themes
Coming of Age, Class, Rules and Order, Marriage, Duty, Race, Gender
