To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel that teaches the audience many life lessons.

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'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee is a novel that teaches the audience many life lessons. Throughout the story, the narrator, Scout Finch is able to teach the audience about racism, prejudice and social class. These three themes all impact the reader and are able to teach them life lessons which may make them better people. Harper Lee has been able to do this through several important language techniques. The themes shown will particularly stem from Chapter 23 which is the result of a lot of the author's thoughts on society.

Reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird' makes you a better person in many different ways primarily because it makes you realise that the colour of your skin does not matter- it is who you are on the inside that counts.

Harper Lee used a variety of literary techniques to make the novel interesting. Harper Lee used symbolism, humour, suspense, juxtaposition, dialect, flashback and irony in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

This novel is related to Harper Lee's own life as she lived in Monroeville, Alabama, a town very much like the imaginary town of Maycomb. The trial of Tom Robinson is very similar to other trials