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Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird And Lessons From The Great Depression

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The Great Depression was the longest-lasting economic plunge in history of the Western Industrialized world. It began right after the stock market crash of October 1920, sending panic everywhere and taking out millions of investors. In To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) by Harper Lee, Lee does a pretty good job portraying how families were affected by the Great Depression in comparison to the articles “Growing Up During the Depression” by Ambrose Light and “Lessons From the Great Depression” by Delores Meyers. To start off, in TKAM Lee does not only describe how the depression affected her family but also describes other families. For example, when Miss Caroline was going to lend Walter money for lunch Scout steps up and says, “‘The Cunninghams
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