and sometimes showed that is possible or not possible to get through these times. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Scout Finch is detailed as a very adventurous young tomboy who is trying to show everyone how it’s possible to grow up during hard times; the Great Depression‚ Tom robinson case and incidents with Boo Radley. The Great Depression was a huge factor for scout in To kill a Mockingbird as it takes place in the small town of Maycomb‚ Alabama in the 1930´s when the economic system was
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The Great Depression In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ the characters face many challenging problems. They face racism‚ learning about courage‚ and The Great Depression. In the opening chapter Scout states‚ “Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it… There was no hurry for there was no where to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to it with‚ nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people.
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others were pulled down along with them. During the depression period‚ “nickels and dimes were hard to come by.” (27) Shops closed down because of the decline in economy. Scout (the protagonist in To Kill a Mockigbird) mentioned‚ “There was no hurry‚ for there was nowhere to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to buy it with‚ nothing outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.”(6) All of Maycomb was affected in one way or another by The Great Depression. Of all of the people that were impacted‚ the farmers
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the Great Depression. Everyone had money invested into something and when the stock market crashed all of the invested into that was gone and all the money in land became worth nothing. Everything people owned became worthless‚ everything worth something was now worth nothing. Even the richest families became poor. Even though Maycomb‚ Alabama was not a real place it described the way other cities were like. Since Harper Lee grew up during the great depression and her To Kill a Mockingbird book
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book To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb‚ Alabama around the early 1930s.The Great Depression was a troubling time for the unemployed.It not only affected the jobless but it had an effect on youth to the elderly. Children had to deal with changes in their education if they were able to attend school and most children suffered from malnutrition. The middle class had to make do of a life without money and security. Many places in the deep South such as Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ the Depression in the south
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Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ around the era of the great depression‚ Scout describes the town and people living in it plainly boring‚ hot‚ filthy‚ slow‚ with an abandoned feel. "In rainy weather‚ the streets turned into red slop; grass grew on sidewalks‚ the court house sagged in the square"(Lee 5). "People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square‚ shuffled in and out of the stores around it‚ took their time about everything"(Lee 5). This reveals how the Great Depression really had a major impact on people
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view of the victimisation prejudice sets upon certain people and the isolation that follows. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout and Jem goes to church with Calpurnia where they are met with hostility from Lula‚”You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillum here”. This is Scout’s first experience with racial discrimination and it emphasises the harshness of society during the epoch of the Great Depression. (Expand)Harper Lee effectively portrayed the absurdness in racial discrimination through a child’s
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on the Underground Railroad. Harper Lee was born in 1926. She grew up during the Great Depression when all of these horrible events‚ plus others happened. Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird‚ which was influenced by the events that occurred in her lifetime. Some of these events included the Scottsboro Trials‚ the Emmett Till murder‚ and the Great Depression. First‚ Harper Lee had many ways to
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Life In The American South During The Great Depression In the book‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ one of the main central focuses is showing life in the American South during the Great Depression. There are many issues of race‚ such as the controversy over Atticus defending Tom Robinson in his trial‚ and when Calpurnia‚ the black housekeeper‚ takes the Finch children to church. There are also issues in acceptable family values and structures and is best depicted when Aunt Alexandra comes to live with
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Very few authors able to introduce real life themes like Harper Lee. The Los Angeles Times calls Lees Pulitzer Prize winning novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ “Memorable… Vivid… a gentle persuasive‚ humor and a glowing goodness.” This is entirely true because Lee is able to introduce various conflicts that happen in present time. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Lee denounces prejudice and racist people. Lee tries to open humanities eyes so it won’t make the same mistakes it made
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