Chosen Harper Lee.

Author is Harper Lee.
Reasons for choosing:

• Herself and her beliefs and characteristics relate with the characters particularly Scout. And also how she based it on her child hood and so gives a unique insight into the racism that occurred in society in the 1930's.

•  The Topics of Racism and sexism really makes my blood boil and it is something that I am becoming increasingly interested and passionate about. I want to investigate more into how it effected people, as it is evident these issues still here are today.

• The passion and frustration people feel towards these topics is inspiring and amazing ! 

•  It is to do with real peoples issues! Even though it has been put into a fictional story things like the miss-justice in the trial of black people , slave trade and the segregation laws still happened. And I really am fascinated by real people problems and stories as I find it is more relative  when it comes to communicating. 

• There aren't many stories that are set during this time period , that I know of. And again because some of it is based on first hand accounts of that time it is more likely to give the reader a better and deeper understanding , rather then coming from secondary information. 

• I really empathises and relate to the characters in both books. Scout is a child and seeing the civil rights war , a child who has no prejudgements on people and there appearances and is viewing everyone as equal. She also has a nanny/maid called Calpuria who is black and she is like a mum to scout. But she like Scout has moments where she sees all people as equal and this had a impression on Scout.  

• The time period and the mistreatment of black people. I want to investigate more into, why there were mistreated by whites ? How this impacted on them? And why are we still battling for equal right now?
• Also the is a very specific amount of information on Harper Lee and the topics she addresses have a good amount of focused information on them.  I think it would be good for me to do an author who's doesn't have loads and loads of information about them. I made that mistake in Person's of note and I don't 

Why not Kafka and Shakespeare:

• Kafka was interesting and his work reflected him a lot but his work is very morbid and sad and for this brief I would like to do something that could have a softer side but also a big issue for many more people.

• Shakespeare I feel he has tones of work and a lot of information on his which is still debated weather it is true or not .So trying to filter all that down to come out with focused clear outcome would be tricky and I would just get too lost. As in passed projects I have always over complicated things. Even though he is a phomonial writer and there are loads of theories surrounding him , I would prefer to try something new and focus more on real life political/cultural issues.