"To Kill a Mockingbird thoroughly deserves its status as a literary classic".

The text "To Kill a Mockingbird", written by Harper Lee, thoroughly deserves its status as a literary classic because the text fits all the criteria. To Kill a Mockingbird was written in the 1950's, and the story was set in the 1930's. To Kill a Mockingbird contains prejudice, which is a human issue, it confronts controversial issues in a subtle way, by using a child narrator, and it uses empathetic characters such as Atticus. It …

…to go through the court and have all the public attention, because Boo isn't a person who is in touch with the public. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a tale of prejudice and injustice shown though the eyes of a child narrator. It fits all the criteria for a text to be classified as a literary classic, and it has thoroughly deserved its status over the many years that its story has been around for.