How did Lee's personal experience affect the narrative of To Kill A Mockingbird?
Many Southern authors of Harper Lee's time period wrote very autobiographical works. This led me to wonder how much Harper Lee's personal life was reflected in the narrative of *To Kill A Mockingbird*. After some research, I was not able to find much. However, I found some information to suggest that she had lived near the location of an event like the one written about in *To Kill A Mockingbird*; her father was a lawyer, like Atticus; she was a tomboy, like Scout; and she had a neighbor down the street who left things in trees, similar to what Boo Radley does in the book. I have not found sources that go into a greater analysis of the similarities. This leads me to ask:**How did Lee's personal experience affect the narrative of *To Kill A Mockingbird*?**
Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" was heavily influenced by the racial segregation that was present in the American south which Lee was exposed to during her early childhood. Having grown up during a time of such controversy when times of racial tension were at a precipice. Lee uses the haunting recollections of her childhood to develop a novel that highlights the social structure of the south thereby producing one of the most thought provoking novels in American literature.
