Dear Harper Lee,
Over the summer, I read your novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The way you go about the topic of the novel is in a way that no one at that time was willing to talk about or even acknowledge.
As i’m sure you know, the novel covers racism, a problem very prominent during the time of you writing the novel. The person that was being prosecuted was a black man named Tom Robinson, he was being prosecuted for the rape and assault of a women named Mayella Ewell, since Maycomb was a white community with racist views, Tom Robinson would be convicted of the crime no matter if he had actually done anything wrong in the first place.
Atticus was on the job of defending Tom Robinson, I believe you did a very well job in presenting all
...of the evidence Atticus had, and that the way it was introduced and all of the detail revolving around his alibi and testimony that any real court case would have changed the verdict to not guilty.
The way you presented imagery in the book was truly outstanding, whenever someone is describing the surroundings and or items it almost feels as though you are there, and if you close your eyes and really focus you can actually visualize these things in great details, for example, at the beginning of the book as Jem and Scout talk about the Radley place they speak in such immense detail you can very clearly picture the house and I feel as though that really adds a connection to the reader, any time I am able to connect to the book and really pu
myself in the place of those characters it makes it so much easier to be able to connect and have a want and a desire to know more about what happens to these characters.
My main wish and really only question would be who is Boo? Boo could have a lot more character development and i really found myself wishing i knew more about him, I think he was a good character choice with lots of potential but as the story progressed it felt like he was more of a fill in character to get the plot going, you don’t see him very many times and very little is ever told about him, I think he could've gone a lot further and been much more involved into the storyline without a lot of change to the main plot. I would also like to know if you had ever encountered anything like this and was wondering what gave you the idea for this story.
Thank you for writing this book, I deeply enjoyed it and felt as if it was a very good life lesson and is something that everyone should know, i also believe that you are very brave for speaking about a topic such as racism even in a time when it was so frowned upon to speak against.
Sincerely,
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