To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Abigail C. Talambayan

Mr. Ebenizer T. Destor

Reading and Writing

14 December 2016

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

An Annotated Bibliography

Marotous, George, and Merren Ward. "Background: Harper Lee." To Kill a Mockingbird, edited by

George Marotous, English Faculty, Melbourne High School, 2006, resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/ mockingbird/harper.htm. Accessed 8 Dec. 2016.

This article is from an English web site unit with a domain name .edu (one of the top-level domain names and a credible source) which was devised and developed (2006), and was updated last 2015 by George Marotous (English Faculty Head of Melbourne High School) and Merren Ward (teacher of English, History and Teacher-Librarian of Melbourne High School). This article focuses on Harper Lee’s identity and recognition of her first published novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It gave reliable informations, aside from the confusing sequence of Lee’s transference of universities, about her biography with dates/years, names of people connected her, and all the awards she and (the characters of) the film adaptation received.

McAdams, Richard H. "Empathy and Masculinity in Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird." The University of Chicago The Law Schoolm.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/research/ richard-h-mcadams-empathy-and-masculinity-harper-lees-kill-mockingbird. Accessed 8 Dec. 2016.

 Richard H. McAdams (of University of Chicago, Chicago with expertise in Law and Economics, Behavioural Economics) focuses on the complicated connection between lawyering and empathy and between empathy and masculinity of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In this article, Atticus Finch was described as a great lawyer, and a helpful father and neighbor. According to McAdams, empathy connects to novel’s focus on lawyering as Atticus was able to use it with intelligence to expose Mayella Ewell’s (white American) false statement about her indictment of Tom Robinson as a rapist (Atticus' negro client). McAdams also stated that the novel introduced, as it focuses on masculinity, a male character (Atticus Finch) which is committed to racial equality to offer a new version of a white American in Jim Crow South (enforcement of racial segregation/desegregation in Southern United States; anti-black law). What happened to Tom Robinson is a great example of racial inequality, which still existed, and people in this generation should open their minds and avoid turning a blind eye when it comes to injustice.