To Kill A Mocking Bird. By Harper Lee. IS TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD A TRADGEDY?

'Is to kill a mocking bird a tragedy?' To answer this question, you must firstly clarify your understanding of a tragedy. The dictionary would describe it as being 'A dram of elevated theme and diction and with fatal or disastrous conclusion' but could be described simply as a sad event. The question, 'Is To Kill a Mocking Bird a tragedy?', is built around a number of different injustices. Even though the book has …

…the time in which the novel was set was crucial to the plot, such as the Depression and post civil war circumstances. Prehaps it may be more accurate to say that To Kill a Mocking bird was a time when tragic events occurred. As a consequence of this the writer wants us, the reader, to take from a child's eyes, the fresh beginnings of new ideas and understandings behind the tragic events in the novel.