' Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit 'em but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel
- a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout & Jem Finch Lee explores the issues of race & class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion & humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice & hypocrisy.