\'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit \'em, but remember it\'s a sin to Kill a mockingbird.\' A lawyer\'s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee\'s classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl.
The conscience of a town steeped in prejudi.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. \'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit \'em, but remember it\'s a sin to Kill a mockingbird.\' A lawyer\'s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee\'s classic novel - a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl