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 …showed first 75 words of 884 total…

…showed last 75 words of 884 total…to go through the court and have all the public attention, because Boo isn't a person who is in touch with the public. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a tale of prejudice and injustice shown though the eyes of a child narrator. It fits all the criteria for a text to be classified as a literary classic, and it has thoroughly deserved its status over the many years that its story has been around for.