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| title = To Kill a Mockingbird
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| author = Harper Lee
| central theme = Appearances are not always correct, no matter what everyone around you says.
| elevator pitch = The narrator's father defends a black man in an Alabama court against charges of raping a white woman. The narrator is too young to know why this is important.
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| publication date = July 11, 1960
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{{quote|''"'...shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' That was the only time I ever hear Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. 'Your father's right,' she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin [[Title Drop|to kill a mockingbird]].'"''}}
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The number one hero on the 100 heroes listing by the AFI was Atticus Finch, and the film was declared number one in AFI's top ten Court Room Dramas.
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(Fun Fact: The movie adaption is [[Superman]]'s favorite movie.)
In February 2015, Harper Lee announced that a sequel to ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', entitled ''[[Go Set a Watchman]]'', her first book since ''Mockingbird'', would be published in July 2015. The new novel, which is about the grown Scout's return to Maycomb to see her father Atticus, was actually written
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Chekhov spends roughly 10 chapters boasting about the gun he keeps on his mantle.
* [[Childhood Marriage Promise]]: Dill and Scout, most likely not meant to be taken seriously. Well, certainly not once you learn that Dill was based on Harper's childhood friend [[Camp Gay|Truman Capote]].
* [[Cigar Chomper]]: According to Jem, this was Judge Taylor's "one interesting habit", as he was a pretty boring person otherwise.
* [[Clear Their Name]]: The main plot and an iconic example in American literature.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dill.
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** Could have something to do with how Atticus seems to hold himself and his children to equal standards, thus they refer to him as an equal.
** Could also be because Atticus' wife died when Jem and Scout were quite young: without a mother present to call Atticus 'dad', Jem and Scout would never hear anyone refer to their father but by his name, and they'd probably copy that behaviour. I know my parents always referred to each other by their names, and so my brother and I did as well.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold|Boo Radley]] and [[Retired Badass|Atticus]]. Also several minor
* [[Hikikomori]]: Boo Radley.
* [[Hot Dad]]: The casting of [[Gregory Peck]] in the [[The Film of the Book|film]] elevated Atticus Finch to this for many women.
* [[Humans Are
* [[I Die Free]]: Mrs. Dubose is determined to break her morphine addiction before she dies, despite adding withdrawal symptoms to her chronic pain.
{{quote|"Did she die free?" asked Jem.
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* [[Missing Mom]]: Scout, Mayella, and Boo all lost their mothers long before the story opens. Since Scout's mom died when she was two, she doesn't remember her, but Jem, who's a few years older, does.
* [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold]]: Boo Radley is a reclusive not-quite-albino, and reputed to be [[Ax Crazy]]. {{spoiler|He ends up saving Scout's and Jem's lives.}}
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Tom Robinson implies that Mayella's father sexually abused her in less than a
** It was a common reality in the time and place of the story. Collin Wilcox Paxton stated in ''Fearful Symmetry'' that she deliberately played Mayella this way. She revealed that girls like Mayella were common in rural North Carolina where she grew up, and it was taken for granted that they were molested, usually by a father or uncle.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: In-universe, Boo Radley to the children.
* [[Nostalgic Narrator]]: The story is narrated by the adult Scout.
* [[Not Evil, Just Misunderstood]]: {{spoiler|Boo Radley.}}
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* [[Shaming the Mob]]: Scout's [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]], where she got a lynch mob to disperse by speaking calmly to them, [[Innocent Inaccurate|apparently oblivious to the seriousness of the situation]].
* [[Simple Country Lawyer]]: Subverted: Atticus was a well-educated man who abhorred the opinions of his neighbors, but incompetent parodies make him into a [[Simple Country Lawyer]].
* [[Smart People Wear Glasses]]: So naturally, Atticus wears them.
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: How Scout feels regarding Mayella, who is [[All of the Other Reindeer|mocked and rejected by the rest of the town]] and {{spoiler|has been assaulted, possibly [[Parental Incest|sexually]], by Bob Ewell}}. Tom Robinson also states during his testimony that, even though Mayella is basically trying to destroy him, he feels sorry for her, which shocks the jury.
* [[Take That]]: Scout's misery with her school system should sound... familiar.
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