Option 2

So, Miss Harper Lee, we where talking about your book ''To kill a Mockingbird''. So far i've only read 3 chapters, and I already have some doubts, not related to the book story, but related to the production of it. I mean the places, all the characteristics of the town, the characters... Like, for example, Maycomb, Does this town represent something special? You can tell by the description that's something on it.. you describe it like '' Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square''... ''People moved slowly then''...  ''A day was 24 hours long but it seemed longer''.

Actually, this city or town does represent something. Its actually a representation of the place where I was born, Monroeville, Alabama was very similar to what Maycomb is. In what ways? A ''boring place'', some place where you feel time passes more slowly, where you don't have nothing to do, nowhere to go at, nothing to buy, nothing really interesting to do, at least at that times. And the colours I gave to Maycomb where the same that Monroeville used to have.

What does Scout Finch represents? Or who's representation is?
Scout Finch represents me, when I was a little girl in Monroeville. And all his characteristics in some way are mine too.

Does the story has something to do with your life?
Yes, actually all the characters represent someone, for example ''Jem'' represents my older brother, ''Dill', aboy who used to come on vacations in summer to Monroeville. And not only the characters, the story too. For example, The Radleys Place was created to represent a house in my town where the same that happens in the book happened. A family lived there, as in the book, the son was locked in for 22 years... And the context of the story too, The Great Depression in the 30's, the racism.. But my story is not a autobiography at all, it just has some factors of my childhood

Last question... What does the title means?
You just have to read the whole book to understand that, but it has something to do with the relation between hunting a mockingbird down as a common animal and one of the main characters.