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¡¡¡¡Have you read " 'To Kill a Mockingbird¡¯ The only navel by Harper Lee offers moral lessons about racial justice and respect£®It tells the story of a young girl named Scout and her father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer£®He defends a black man£®

¡¡¡¡Tom Robinson wrongfully accused of raping(Ç¿¼é)a white woman£®In the end, an all-white- jury(ÅãÉóÍÅ)sentences Tom Robinson to death£®
¡¡¡¡The book is set in the American, South in the 1930s£®
¡¡¡¡But it came out on July11th, 1960 as the civil rights movement in the United States was gaining strength£®
¡¡¡¡Laws and customs in the South, however, still kept blacks and whites mostly separated£®
¡¡¡¡A mockingbird is a land of gray songbird£®The book gets its, title from something Atticus Finch was told in his childhood when his father gave him a gun£®Atticus Finch said, "I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he£®told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them£®But remember, it was a sin(×ï¹ý)to kill a mockingbird, for they don't hurt anyone, they just make music£®"
¡¡¡¡Some people said, " 'To Kill a Mockingbird' treats racism in a way that is simplisite(¹ý·Öµ¥´¿»¯µÄ), even offensive to blacks, and out of date in today's, America£®" Still, it has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over forty million copies£®It is often required reading in high schools£®Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize in America in 1961 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007£®
¡¡¡¡The story takes place in a town that Harper Lee called Maycomb£®But she based the characters on real people she knew growing up£®Since then her hometown Monroeville has changed a lot£®A number of African-Americans serve m the local government£®The courthouse, made famous by the book, is now a museum£®A small shop and a fast-food restaurant called Mel's Dairy Dream have replaced Harper Lee's childhood home£®