Both To Kill A Mockingbird and The Help took place in the south. More specifically Mississippi, one of the many similarities of the two stories. The two stories took place in different time frames, one in 1930’s and the other in 1960’s. Regardless of the time frames there are still many similarities but also many differences.
Starting of with character comparison there are several characters with similar traits. Skeeter and Scout for example, both play major roles in the stories. They are both open minded, they don’t care what others think of them. They both have tomboyish characteristics, not caring when others make fun of them for it. They also have nothing against the other race and courage to do what they think is right. They both stand up for what they believe in. Scout stopped the mop trying to kill Tom Robinson at the prison and Skeeter wrote a book to help the maids she
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This made African Americans’ lives difficult and made many of them live in fear. Some African Americans believed they deserved better lives and tried to move north where it was less harsh for them to live. Some whites, who believed blacks didn’t deserve better lives, would lynch them for something they felt African Americans did “wrong”. In the setting of To Kill A Mockingbird taking place in the 1930’s not many blacks were standing up against the whites. Jim Crow laws contributed to the outcome of Tom Robinson's trial, an example of what happened to the few who did stand up. The Jim Crow laws hadn’t yet been challenged much in the 1930’s. In the 1960’s when The Help took place people had began to protest the Jim Crow laws. In the late 1950’s through the 1960’s people began standing up for equality. The would hold sit-ins, boycotts, and protest demanding equal rights. These resulted in violence from whites who didn’t like the blacks rising up. The Civil Rights Movement began in 1960 and eventually lead to the blacks’ equal