Brown vs. Board

Brown vs. Board is about Oliver L. Brown going against the board of education. This civil rights movement helps give African Americans the same education as white men, women and children. This is of the most significant movements in the country. In simple terms, the Brown vs. Board was established because of separate schools for black and white children. To Kill a Mockingbird was written around the time Brown vs. Board was going on. Within the book, everyone is friendly and everyone gets along but if the book was based before the movement, everything would have been different. For Jem and scout in school, they would have been in separate school from African kids. Harper Lee based the book off of how everything would have been after the movement or if the situation had never happened. Thanks to Harper Lee, we can now see life as it was in Maycomb, Alabama once the movement has taken place.

Doubt Connection

Gossip is never good but we all do it. It's human for us to talk about each other behind everyone's back. In To Kill A Mockingbird, there is a lot of gossip on the streets of Maycomb, Alabama. The main thing that is gossiped about is Boo Radley. Boo lives in his house with his brother but never come's out. People say that boo eats animals and would kill you if you came near the house but it's not even true. In the movie doubt, a women was gossiping about someone else, once she felt bad, she went to confession. At confession, the priest said she committed a sin. Gossip is most likely a lie at it's worst, most gossip hurts people when it's being passed around.

Who is Harper Lee?!

Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monoreville, Alabama. As a child she grew up being the youngest of four children. Her father was a lawyer and her mother didn't live with them due to a mental illness. When Harper started High School, she found her love in English and writing. Harper Lee ended up going to an all girls college then switching over too law school. Later on in her college life, she went to Oxford University in England as an exchange student and then went back to law school in the fall. As years went on Harper went back to her love of writing. She wrote her book, To Kill A Mockingbird and won Pulitzer Prize and many more awards also. As of now, Harper lives happily in her home in New York or in her home town, Monroeville.



http://www.biography.com/articles/Harper-Lee-9377021?part=0