Shoot all the Bluejays you want if you can hit em but remember its a sin to kill a Mockingbird. A lawyers advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lees classic novel
- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout & Jem Finch Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race & class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice violence & hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one mans struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.