Who is Harper Lee and How is Her Life Reflected in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Who is Harper Lee, and How is Her Life Reflected in To Kill a Mocking Bird?
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Who is Harper Lee, and how is Her Life reflected in To Kill a Mocking Bird?
Nelle Harper Lee, the famous award-winning author, was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. She was the youngest daughter of Frances Finch and Amasa Lee. Her father was a lawyer and a man of principles, serving just to his profession, sound, and fair in citizenship. Lee grew up as a tomboy, and through her childhood, she witnessed extreme racism and prejudice against the black and brown people of society. At the age of 18, she joined the University of Alabama and later the Oxford University through a student exchange program to study law. However, six months before completing her degree, she decided to be a writer and quit her studies. With the help of two of her brown friend patrons, she started writing short stories, which later on developed into a novel that showcases her own life and can be graded as an autobiography. The discussion, as follows, reveals how the novel acts as a reflection of her own life.
To Kill a Mocking Bird is a novel known and read worldwide due to its catchy theme of racism and social snobbery. Nearly all the facets of this novel are autobiographic. There is a sheer flavor of the author’s childhood and a clear connection to her family in the book (Shields, 2015). The protagonist is a girl named Scout Finch, 6-8 years of age through the novel (Shields, 2015), representing the same tomboy attitude as Lee in her childhood. This girl is raised with her brother Jeremy Atticus just like Lee, who had one brother too. The location is a small town of Alabama, the hometown of Lee herself. The Finch family has marked similarities with her own family, which flows through her writing. Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, is depicted as Atticus Finch, the father who stands out for his bold nature in the novel, a lawyer, and a socially just, profound man of fair values. Like Lee’s father, his character has a great role in influencing his children to become more empathetic and considerate towards humanity and describes innocence as a value far above the social norms. Harper’s mother died when she was 25, and in the novel, Scout is two at her mother’s de...