To Kill A Mockingbird
Thursday, October 20, 10am and 8 pm
Friday, October 21, 10am and 8 pm
Saturday, October 22, 2 pm
Thursday, October 27, 10am and 8 pm
Friday, October 28, 10am and 8 pm
Saturday, October 29, 2 pm
$5; free for RCC students with id
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Roxbury Community College (RCC) proudly presents Nelle Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning classic To Kill A Mockingbird, a coming-of-age story about innocence and injustice, friendship and intolerance, good and evil in the Deep South. The novel, published in 1960, is studied in classrooms and has been adapted into numerous stage productions and into an Academy Award-winning film. A profoundly influential literary work, To Kill A Mockingbird sells nearly a million copies a year. In 1991 American librarians voted the book the best novel of the 20th Century. That same year the American Film Institute (AFI) rated the film version as the 34th best film ever made; and in 2003, the AFI chose Atticus Finch as the greatest hero of American cinema. In 2005 Time Magazine named To Kill A Mockingbird one of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present.
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Set in the Great Depression of the 1930’s, To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, but most agree it is a story about the human experience and could happen anywhere. The novel replays three key years in the life of Scout, the young daughter of Atticus Finch, the town's principled lawyer. Scout's narrative relates how she and her elder brother Jem learn about fighting prejudice and upholding human dignity through the example of their father, who has taken on the legal defense of a black man who has been falsely charged with raping a white woman. Lee’s themes include racial justice, and the obligation we have to follow our own internal ethical compasses; class, and our tendencies to stereotype people for our own convenience; and tolerance, and the need to be accepting of all people, especially those unlike ourselves.
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