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Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been an enormous success since its publication in 1960. Besides becoming a Literary Guild Selection Choice and a Book Society Choice it also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 (Johnson 8). By 1982 over 15,000,000 copies of the book were sold. In a survey of lifetime reading habits taken in 1991 To Kill a Mockingbird was cited as making the biggest difference in a person’s life, second only to the bible. Since its publication the book has made a major impact on people and the culture as a whole (13-14). The similarity of Harper Lee’s life and the Scottsboro Trial to the events in the book are part of the reason the book has been so successful. Along with this is her use of symbolism which is used throughout the story to convey problems of racism in the south during the early twentieth century (Smykowski 1).
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the great depression in the 1930’s and is about the lives of two children living in......

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