Historical Events In To Kill A Mockingbird

One of the famous book that won the Pulitzer Prize called To Kill a Mockingbird talks about the main character Scout who have a dad name Atticus and a brother name Jem. They both go through a hard life where people are segregated and being racist. This book shows us that how it was hard back then when people were segregated. She uses historical ideas/events to show the reader how it was like back then with racism and The Great Depression. Racism is one of the historical events she uses in her book because she wants to show the reader how people who were racist to other race back then. The whites hate blacks and they were also segregated. I know because in the book called To Kill a Mockingbird, it says,“Not only a Finch waiting on tables, but

She put that her story to tell that during that time when people were still being racist. They were poor also and now people can’t pay other people. I know because in the book it says,“As Maycomb County was farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.”(Pg.23) This explains that people were poor at that time because people with these jobs have to work really hard to get the money. Also, in the article it says, “People had less money to buy things, and companies stopped producing things. The stock market also took another plunge, and unemployment shot back up to 19 percent.”(Newsela) This illustrate that people were poor because they have to go to work looking for money or working really hard, so they can get money which aren’t worth that was a dime and a nickel. Factories and companies began to stop making things too. In conclusion, Harper Lee put The Great Depression in the book because at that time where people being racist to each other. The Great Depression had also happen which makes lives harder for African American and some whites depending on wealth. People would lose jobs or take in position of the jobs that blacks would do and they need to be