1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/to_kill_a_mockingbird (Summary of the source) To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was successful upon its release and has become a classic of modern American fiction. The novel is based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. The book is widely taught in schools in English-speaking countries with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice.
2. http://www.dvdreview.com/html/to_kill_a_mockingbird.html (Summary of the source) “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a legendary movie, uniquely strong and sensitive about racism and the ways of the Old South during the Great Depression in the 1930s. When a black man is accused of raping a white woman, Atticus steps up to defend the man. Fully convinced of the man’s innocence, he causes a stir as he actually fights against the trial’s foregone conclusion. With growing admiration and fascination his children watch as their father tries to break with prejudices and biased traditions, exercising in person the kind of compas- sion and values he has been teaching them throughout their childhoods. Though Atticus is pressured and harassed on all fronts, and though he loses many friends over the course of the trial, he earns the respect and admiration of both his motherless children and the black people in this dusty, sleepy small town.