📚ap english literature review

To Kill a Mockingbird

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," explores themes of racial injustice and the loss of innocence through the eyes of Scout Finch, a young girl growing up in the 1930s American South.

AP course connection

Topic 7.6: 7.6 Setting as a symbol

Unit 7
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