How Does Lee Present The Tension In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee chooses to set her novel in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Millions of people had lost their jobs, their homes, their businesses and their land; every thing that made up their way of life. Lee creates in To Kill a Mockingbird 1960s, a memorable character to explore civil rights movement; this was a struggle by the African-Americans to achieve the equality and racism in the segregated southern, the United-State at 1930s. She presents the special case in her novel to illustrate the tension between white people who had control over the communities they lived in, and black people who seemed resigned to accepting the 'Jim Crows laws' and living within the existing system. Many states passed ' Jim Crows Laws ', which limited how African- Americans could participate in society. The laws increased from there and lasted until the Civil Rights Movement. Moreover, one of the most important events in civil rights history began in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, her decision giving new life to the Civil rights movement. Civil Rights issues were heating up across the nation.

Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus, who assigned to represent Tom Robinson. Every family in Maycomb has its social stations depends on where they live, who their parents are.

The Plot and characters of the story based on Harper Lee’s own family and neighbors' as well as an event that occurred close to her hometown. Lee presented a portrait of the African- Americans as a human