The Bildungsroman novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” narrated by Scout was set in 1933-1935 in a small town in the Southern States of the United States of America called Maycomb Country, Alabama. Harper Lee is the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and wrote the novel in 1933-1935 during the Great Depression and it was later published in 1960 during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. When “To Kill a Mockingbird” was set in 1933-1935 was during the years of The Great Depression. One of the biggest issues in society during the time was racial discrimination against black people.
In 1960 was during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement which created the reader to position themselves to agree with the meaning created by Lee. Where if the novel was published when it was set this would have caused an uproar as in the 1930’s black people were known to be under the
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A big way in Atticus baking up his teachings is defending Tom Robinson in court against the charge of raping a white women.
The most depicted theme in “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the injustice of racism and segregation. In the society of the 1930’s when the novel was set during The Great Depression black people were under the dominance of the white government. Atticus tries to tell Jem and Scout that whatever happens between a white man and a black man, the white man will always win. The most obvious scene of this in the novel is when Tom Robinson is unfairly pleaded guilty to raping a white women.
“There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads- they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white always wins. They’re ugly, but these are the facts of life” (Lee,