Plot

Well, there's not quite a plot since this is a biography. However, since it is a life story, and a story must have plot - then, yes - there is a plot. The main plot is about Harper Lee's life. It details her living in Monroeville, Alabama and her friends and family. She goes off to college eventually and it details her life experiences there and in the humor magazines there. Eventually, she begins to write To Kill A Mockingbird after she is given a year's income to write the book. It then details the events of the book becoming a movie and the exploitation of it in Monroeville afterwards. The book ends with the death of one of her friends and her life today.


Now - I was looking for things that would possibly be of interest to the teacher grading this (since she does decide my grade) or anyone who happens to come across this blog. So I went to Google and looked up things about Harper Lee's life. Interestingly enough, something the book did not note that could have been part of the plot (when the book details how she has been hidden from the press and has garnered no attention for years and years) is that at one point she was on the National Council for the Arts in 1966. (Czech) Another thing the book says about the second book, which the publishers wanted Harper to produce as much as the readers wanted one, is that the script for the book was stolen from her apartment. However, the article I found said Harper Lee also said that in the first book she "said what she had to say."


Works Cited

Czech, Jan. A Look at Harper Lee's Life. 27 November 2009. 29 May 2011 <http://www.suite101.com/content/a-look-at-harper-lees-life-a174355>.