Nelle Harper Lee wrote a book, “To kill a Mockingbird,” this novel is one of greatest in the history of world literature, but the author would never have written the book without the best friend introduced in the book by the name of Dill. In “To kill a Mockingbird”, the central character, Scout Finch, met Dill, a spoiled boy and genius expert, when they were both six years old (Lee, 2021). In life, too: Harper Lee and Truman Capote met when they were six years old and became best friends forever. They were always the most important people to each other. They helped each other; one could always depend on the other. When Truman conceived An Ordinary Murder, Harper went to Kansas with and helped him gather material for the book (Hu & Zhou, 2019). In their tandem, the woman was the best side of discreet but sociable with everyone, strong, intelligent, and conscientious. Meanwhile, all his life Truman remained what he was at the age of six: a talented, capricious child. However, that man always appeared at the right moment to help Harper Lee.
Harper’s father, Amas Coleman Lee, was a lawyer, like Atticus Finch, but a man instead, the opposite of Atticus. Harper invented and described the father of which she dreamed. Her own father was sexist, looking at women as second-class people. The man could not believe that his daughter would make anything worthwhile (Al-Mamoory & Witwit, 2021). Meanwhile, Harper’s mother suffered from depression and could not take care of the children, critics believe that the image of Scarecrow Radley was modelled on her. Thus, in the novel, Nelly Harper Lee used her biography to create the personalities and plot of the book.
References
Al-Mamoory, S., & Witwit, M. A. (2021). Critical discourse analysis of opression in “To kill a Mockingbird”. Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Research, 9(02), 11-24. Web.
Hu, Y., & Zhou, M. (2019). The root of sin: An analysis on the social and economic situation reflected from to kill a Mockingbird. International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature, 7(4), 48-55.
Lee, H. (2021). To kill a Mockingbird. CELA.