American Gothic Literature illuminates and challenges different boundaries and ideologies.
To Kill a Mockingbird falls into this category, because
the author narrated through a child; in a manner that
was like holding up a mirror in the face of racism.
It was not just a creative fiction that a black man accused
of any crime by any white person, let alone the crime of
rape, would be found anything other than guilty.
Tom Robinson was guilty the moment the prosecuter
finished his opening statement, it was a foregone
conclusion. It had everything to do with racism and
nothing to do with justice.
Harper Lee won a nobel peace prize for this work,
because it made the world look at itself again, thru
the eyes of a child... as in what are we teaching our
children.
