To kill a mockingbird books7/1/2023 There's some threatened and real violence in this Pulitzer Prize winner: A man breaks a child's arm a rabid dog is shot and killed there is a stabbing death the children and their father, Atticus Finch, confront a lynch mob and the court case at the center of the novel involves a Black man who's been accused of raping and beating a white woman. Their youth and innocence contrasts with the prejudice, cruelty, and poverty they often observe. The narrator, 6-year-old Scout Finch, and her brother Jem and their friend Dill play children's games, but they also have a clear view of the adults in their world. The story takes place in Depression-era Alabama, in the fictional town of Maycomb, which Lee patterned after her own hometown of Monroeville. Parents need to know that Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird addresses the terrible impact of racism in America through a little girl's point of view. Scout smells stale whiskey on a man's breath.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Bob Ewell is said to spend his relief checks on green whiskey, letting his children go hungry. A man named Dolphus Raymond is believed to be the town drunk, because he drinks something hidden in a paper bag, but it turns out to be a bottle of Coca-Cola.
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