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Themes and Symbols in the Novel Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28. She was a caring person yet very curt, she wrote in one of her poems, “There is only one kind of love…love”, (Lee, Love in Other Words, article) which showed one of her bett ....

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.... that Harper Lee only wrote one book and won the Pulitzer Prize. There are many themes and symbols in this book. Scouts father, Atticus, tells Scout and Jem, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it’s a sin .” (Lee 69). This passage is where she got the name for her book. During the 1950’s in the small county of Maycomb, the mentality of most southern people reflected that of the nation. Most of the people were racist. In the novel, these ideas are explored through a young girl by the name ....