Innholdsfortegnelse
1. What is the setting of the novel? When was the novel published? (Why is that important?)
2. Who is the narrator? How old is she? Give a brief description of her family.
3. Outline the major events in Part 1 (Chapter 1-11). What is the center of interest in this part?
4. Summarize the main aspects of the trial. Did you expect the jury’s verdict? Why/ Why
5. What is the major climax of the novel? Do the final chapters seem anti-climatic?
6. How are the two parts related? (= How is the novel structured?)
7. Try to explain the title of this novel. How is it related to the theme? (= what the book is really about). What do you think the author first of all wanted to tell us in this novel (message)?
8. Describe the point of view (= through whose eyes do we see the story?) What is the effect of this point of view?
9. Describe the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird. Do they develop during the novel?
10. How does the author present the black characters in To Kill a Mockingbird?
11. What are the major faults which Harper Lee finds in Maycomb society?
12. How does the description of the Ewell house contribute to our understanding of the Ewell family’s role in the novel?
Utdrag
1. What is the setting of the novel? When was the novel published? (Why is that important?)
o - It’s in the 1930s in Alabama (in the very south, near the Gulf of Mexico). It was a southern American gothic theme; everything was kind of misstructured and without a particular order.
During the depression. One example of this is when the shop owner, at the very end of the book, removed the stickers saying “NPA(?)”.
o - The Civil Rights movements in the 1960s. This book tells us the need for the Civil Rights movement.
Tom Robinson was judged by “the color of skin and not the content of his character”, as Martin Luther King once talked about. You didn’t get justice in this period, just because of the color of your skin.
o - 1962 – the movie was made based on the novel and won the Oscar Award (Gregory Pat – Best actor).
o - It’s about a black man, named Tom Robinson, who has been falsely accused of rape by a white man.
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