"To Kill a Mockingbird thoroughly deserves its status as a literary classic".

The text "To Kill a Mockingbird", written by Harper Lee, thoroughly deserves its status as a literary classic because the text fits all the criteria. To Kill a Mockingbird was written in the 1950's, and the story was set in the 1930's. To Kill a Mockingbird contains prejudice, which is a human issue, it confronts controversial issues in a subtle way, by using a child narrator, and it uses empathetic characters such as Atticus. It also shows a broad view of life at the time, back in the 1930's, and the narrative style uses a childish representation of serious issues, which allows the reader…