To Kill a Mockingbird

I had studied this novel in GCSE Literature but I hadn't read it for a whole year so I wanted to read it again. I have recently finished it and forgot how much I loved/hated it. I loved the story behind it but I hated the notes written all over it as it reminded me of the strenuous analysing and work I had to do in that exam. The book was written by Harper Lee and it was written in a first person narrative. The narrator was looking into a flashback so in the present time she was a lot more older. The key themes were obviously racism/prejudice/injustice, childhood, innocence, protection, harsh realities of life and mistakes. Some ideas I am able to pick out of this novel is the time frame in which it was written. This is a very old written novel, published in 1960 and I like how Lee focuses on the extreme racism in America. This inspires me to write in a time frame before I was born and focus on the more historical means of writing rather than writing in the generation I am living in now.