Harper Lee Vs. Truman Capote

Have you ever noticed how similar Harper Lee is to the character, Scout? To start, they both grew up in a small town in Alabama, both Harper Lee and Scout’s fathers were Lawyers and they served as state legislators. Scout and Harper Lee grew up watching two seperate cases where white voices were deemed more valuable than the evidence and black voices given to say otherwise. Scout and Lee both came into school as really good readers, and they knew how to read ever since they could last remember. Finally Harper Lee and Scout both got read to by their father out of a newspaper. The character, Scout, has several similarities to her author, Harper Lee.

Harper Lee knew first hand about the life in the south in the 1930's. She was born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926 (Castleman 2). Harper Lee was described by one of her friends as "Queen of the Tomboys" (Castleman 3). Scout Finch, the main character of Lee's Novel, To Kill a Mockinbird, was also a tomboy. "Many aspects of To Kill a Mockingbird are autobiographical" (Castleman 3). Harper Lee's parents were Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. She was the youngest of four children. Ms. Lee's novel has many characters that have similar characteristics to Lee's own family. Atticus Finch was an attorney, while Lee's own father was also an attorney, as well as Harper Lee's sister, Alice Finch Lee (Kansas).

Due to her hometown and her parents, she was able to find inspiration for her novels. Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville Alabama (104). Harper Lee’s Father was Amasa Coleman and her mother was Frances Finch Lee. Lee’s father was a lawyer and like the child protagonist Scout of To Kill a Mockingbird, her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, once defended two black men, a father and son, who were accused of murdering a white store clerk (286). Harper Lee was young her neighbors had summer visits from Truman Capote, a future writer and a possible inspiration for a character in her book To Kill a Mockingbird. Truman Capote was a close friend may have been the inspiration for the character “Dill” in her first novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”(104). According to Marianne M. Moates “As a child, Harper Lee was ‘a rough ‘n’ tough tomboy…. She had short, cropped hair, wore coveralls, went barefoot, and could talk mean like a boy” (103). This tomboy like nature caused

A person’s childhood can really affect the way they see the world. Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is highly influenced by the life she lived as a little girl. She grew up in the small town of Monroeville, Alabama. She was born there in 1926 and recently passed away in February of 2016 (Lee). Harper Lee’s real name was Nelle (Nail), but everyone calls her Harper because she opted for Nelle to be left off of her first novel. Her parents named her after her grandmother, Ellen, but spelled backwards (Shields I Am Scout 6). Despite growing up with two older sisters and only one brother, Nelle grew up as a tomboy. Her childhood best friend was her next door neighbor, Truman Capote. They both shared a common

Nelle Harper Lee, born and raised in Monroeville, Alabama. Harper was born April 28, 1926, She was the youngest of four children. Harper was the daughter of Frances Cunningham Finch and Amasa Coleman Lee. Harpers father was a lawyer and her mother suffered from and illness what was believed to be Bipolar disorder. While Nelle was young she was more of a tomboy than a girly girl. One of her close childhood friend was Truman Capote. Its said to be that Nelle protected Truman from other boys.

Lee’s life was not always as great as it may come across to be. Her mother was actually ill for most of her childhood, “rarely leaving the house” (Harper Lee Biography). It may have been bipolar disorder, but it has not been proven. Lee was not the only one with a tough

“Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life” (Dan Kedmey). Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel based on the protagonist's life in Maycomb County. Many characters and events in Maycomb county are based on Lee’s life. Lee’s was born in Monroe, Alabama in the south, just like our protagonist (Scout) was raised from. A character that Lee’s has the most empathy for is Boo Radley. Boo Radley is based on someone she mostly cares , her mom ( Frances Cunningham Finch ) who suffered from a mental illness and rarely left the house. Not only did Lee’s included her life in the novel her mother’s middle and maiden name

Society is a vague unspecific term that is defined differently in different parts of the world. It is generally understood as the set of standards that are expected from everyone within an interconnected community. These standards do not literally control what a person can or cannot do but they do limit a person so long that they intend to remain a part of society.

Harper Lee’s coming-of-age novel To Kill a Mockingbird illustrates the life of its young narrator, Jean Louise “Scout" Finch, in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1930s. Scout begins the novel as a thirteen year old reflecting back on major key events in her childhood life. She lives with her father, Atticus, a lawyer, her older brother Jem, and their black housekeeper, Calpurnia who tends to the children and the house while Atticus is at work. Scout and Jem's summer playmate, Dill Harris, shares the Finch children's adventures and adds imagination and intrigue to their game playing and their own lives. In this novel, Scout grows in awareness and comes to new understandings about her town, her family, and even herself.

In addition to Scout’s personality and the circumstances of Scout’s family and friends, the setting of the novel is also determined by Lee’s own childhood. Harper Lee talked about her childhood, saying “I arrived in the first grade, literate. We were privileged. There were children…who had never looked into a book until they went to school. They had to be taught to read in the first grade” (Lee, Harper. Letter). Harper Lee talks about how as a child, her family is one of few that can read, and that many others in her town cannot because they are too busy helping their families in many ways. The children are needed to help out in every way possible because the depression takes its toll on everyone. Harper Lee chooses to set To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in a small town in Alabama. She was the youngest of four children and grew up a tomboy. Her father was a lawyer and participated in state legislature, while her mother suffered from a mental illness and rarely left the house. In her twenties, Lee moved to New York City to pursue her career of becoming a writer. She made some friends who offered to let her live with them for a year so she could focus solely on her writing. During this time, she was introduced to a publisher and wrote her award winning To Kill a Mockingbird which is the book that precedes Go Set a Watchman. Even though To Kill a Mockingbird was published first, she wrote Go Set a Watchman first. The editor told Lee to make the main character younger. After working it for a couple years, To Kill a Mockingbird was published.

Question one - How heavily did the Harper Lee’s early life experiences influence her writing?

Famed writer Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1959 she finished the manuscript for her prize winning book “To Kill A Mocking Bird”. She won the Pulitzer Prize, for her bestselling novel “To Kill A Mocking Bird”. Soon after, she helped fellow-writer and friend Truman Capote write an article for The New Yorker which would later evolve into his nonfiction masterpiece, In Cold Blood. In July 2015 she wrote another novel Go Set a Watchman which was written before “To Kill A Mocking Bird” and portrays the later lives of the characters. Her novel “To Kill A Mocking Bird” is still a popular book in American

Much of Lee’s early life mirrors that of Scout Finch, including where and when she lived when she was a child, her father’s experiences

Born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926 Harper Lee is one of America’s beloved writers known for her award winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Her father Coleman lee and mother Frances Cunningham gave her the name Nelle, which was the name of her grandmothers spelled backwards. Lee’s mothers job was to be a stay home mother and her father was involved in law and later became a lawyer for Alabama state legislature. It was when she was in high school she developed the love for literature and when she later graduated she went to an all-female university, but then later transferred to University of Alabama, where she studied law. Lee wasn’t able to finish college because she made a decision to peruse her career as a professional