Introduction
To Kill A Mockingbird: A Literary WebQuest
As we commence in our study
of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill A
Mockingbird, we will begin to look at the author's biographical
history. Awareness of personal identity is a dominant theme running
throughout the novel, especially when placed within the larger context of the
rural South during the Great Depression of the 1930's. We will seek to
understand some of the gender, socioeconomic, and class issues which influence
and often dictate the lives of the novel's characters.