Similarities Between The Great Depression And To Kill A Mockingbird

The whole town is in a very bad time, from the Great Depression and a great racial tension. The town of Maycomb is a disaster that the kids don't have a clue of. Maycomb got hit hard by the Great Depression because lots of occupations there were farmers, and they got hit the hardest. They also have a great number of black people in their town, and they are prejudiced against them. They really don’t like them and they discriminate against them and are really racist. Because Scout, Jem and Dill are really young, they don’t have a clue how bad both conflicts are. But as the story progresses, it really shows how both Jem and Scout start to mature during the story, and near the end they start to understand how bad Maycomb really is. The novel,

In the book version, it shows that things are very tough in the current time period. Some evidence to prove this is that the Cunninghams should be known by the whole town for how poor they are. “As the Cunninghams had no money to pay a lawyer, so they simply paid us with what they had” (Lee 21). This means that the Cunninghams were especially poor and they were hit hard during the Great Depression. From the film, the beginning scene is Mr. Cunningham giving Atticus a sack of potatoes, which proves the point that they pay back with what they have. In this, He gave Atticus some potatoes instead of some real money, which Atticus accepts. There are lots of poor people but there are also a lot of bad people in Maycomb as

In the beginning of the story, they are like every other kid, having fun, beginning their life, and not knowing a thing in the world. But as time progresses and they start to learn about their racist town and the current poverty strike, they start to learn how troublesome it is there. “There was a big cake and two little ones on Miss Maudie’s kitchen table” (Lee 214). In the beginning of the story, Miss Maudie makes all the kids three little cakes for them to eat, but as she realizes that Jem is a growing boy, she takes a slice of the main cake, or the bigger one, and gives it to Jem. This is very significant to the fact that Jem is becoming a young man and is starting to drift away from being a young boy and this is really good evidence to support this