To Kill A Mockingbird, Mad Dog by Harper Lee read by A Poetry Channel

Happy Father's Day! The first a double (or triple) header I've recorded to celebrate dads everywhere! An excerpt from To Kill A Mockingbird for this Father's Day where young Jem and Scout learn to see what they thought was their boring old daddy, Atticus, with new eyes. My name is Lori. If you enjoy my readings and would like to show your support, you can buy me a cup of coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_ap... To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by American author Harper Lee, published in 1960. Enormously popular, it was translated into some 40 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and is one of the most-assigned novels in American schools. In 1961 it won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The novel was praised for its sensitive treatment of a child’s awakening to racism and prejudice in the American South. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. The narrator is Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch, an intelligent though unconventional girl who ages from six to nine years old during the course of the novel. She is raised with her older brother, Jeremy Atticus (“Jem”), by their widowed father, Atticus Finch, a prominent lawyer who encourages his children to be empathetic and just. Lee reportedly based the character of Atticus Finch on her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a compassionate and dedicated lawyer and newspaper editor. The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired in part by his unsuccessful youthful defense in 1919 of two African American men who were convicted of murder, the only criminal case he ever took. It is also loosely based on the 1931 case of the “Scottsboro Boys,” in which nine Black youths were wrongly convicted of raping two white women in Alabama. #father #fathersday #fatherlove