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To Kill A Mockingbird During The Great Depression Summary

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To Kill A Mockingbird place during the Great Depression in Maycomb, Alabama. It's narrated by a very smart six year old girl named Scout. Scout lives with her brother, Jem, and dad Atticus, who is a lawyer. Jem and Scout have a neighbor named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. They have another neighbor named Boo Radley, who lives alone and never comes outside. Even though there are rumours that Boo stabbed his own dad with scissors, the kids try to get Boo to come out of his house so they can meet. This never happens. Over the next 2 years, the kids find that someone leaves them gifts in this tree outside of Boo’s house. They learn later it was Boo leaving the gifts. Atticus, Scout's dad, is assigned as a lawyer of a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of …show more content…

Atticus takes the job on eagerly, but it's really the talk of the town, which is extremely prejudiced against African Americans. The kids at Jem and Scout’s school tease them about how their dad is defending a black man and Jem get’s into a fight one time defending his dad. One day Tom is almost stoned, but the kids are there to stop it from happening. When Tom’s trial takes place, Scout, Jem, and Dill watch in secret from the colored balcony because they weren’t supposed to come. Atticus says the prosecution is lying and that Tom could not have raped Mayella because his left side is paralyzed. Atticus tells the jury that Mayella was actually trying to mess around with Tom when her father, Bob Ewell, caught her in the act. Despite all the evidence of Tom's innocence, the all white jury convicts Tom and sends him to prison. Tom is later shot and killed while trying to escape from the

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The book To Kill a Mockingbird took place in the 1930’s in a tired old town called Maycomb. Racism was at its highest, while jobs were at its lowest. The story is told in the perspective of the main character Scout Finch a 6-year-old girl. She shows the readers how the good people of Maycomb are hurt with the bad of Maycomb. Scout demonstrates this by putting many characters through many obstacles.

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After the court takes a lunch break, Jem, Scout, and Dill try to sneak into the courtroom without Atticus finding out. When they finally enter the courtroom, there are no empty seats so the reverend offers them a seat in the balcony, where the black children sit. The children can see Judge Taylor, an old white who often runs the court casually, resuming the trial. First, Heck Tate, the Maycomb sheriff, who is questioned by Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor. Tate recalls that on November 21st, Bob Ewell told him that Tom Robinson had raped his daughter Mayella.

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“You can’t judge an album by a single sing; It’s like judging a book by only reading a single chapter” (Robin, Trevor). To Kill a Mockingbird is a book that took place in the 1930’s in the south. The story is narrated in the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch. She lives in Maycomb Alabama, with her brother Jem and her father Atticus. Scout has a friend named Dill and  the three of them get in a lot of trouble throughout the book.

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To Kill A Mockingbird. The story was set in a fictional town in Alabama called “Maycomb”, during the 1930’s great depression. Our protagonist - a young girl named Scout Finch- lived in Maycomb with her father, brother, and house keeper. Throughout the book we get to see Scout’s moral growth. She met people who are surrounded by misconceptions: Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Dolphus Raymond; from each, she learned the truth about them.

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“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome” (Parks, Rosa). To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee takes place in a small southern town in sleepy Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout Finch lives with her older brother Jem and her father Atticus who is a prominent lawyer and a widow. Scout and Jem spend their time going to school and their summer spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor Boo Radley who never comes out the house.

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He is nicknamed Boo and he never comes outside so he has never been seen by them. A neighbor 's nephew, named Dill starts spending summers in Maycomb. He becomes good friends with Scout and Jem and they begin an obsessive mission to get Boo to come outside. Scout and Jem discover that their father is going to represent a black man named Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping and beating a white woman.

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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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Atticus is given the role to take on being Tom’s lawyer. As a kind man who sees everyone equally he takes the case. Even though Atticus knows they will not win the trial because it is a black man’s word against a white man’s, he tries his best “Atticus, are we going to win it?”“No, honey.”(Lee 86). Even though Atticus had proven Robinson innocent with all the questioning he ask towards Mayella and Bob. With one point Atticus makes “Except when he's drinking?”(Lee 209) and Mayella agrees by nodding her head.

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The Great Depression and the Jim Crow south affected Maycomb Alabama, and other communities across America in many ways in the book To Kill A Mockingbird for example it says that, Maycomb was a “tired old town... there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see...” and this sentence shows what really happened during The Great Depression. The Great Depression changed the United States of America in many ways one of which is the economy and in maycomb this affected everyone especially the Cunninghams who were afraid to take anything because they knew they couldn’t pay it back. It also affected the Ewells a lot as they have absolutely nothing left not only because of the depression because

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Maycomb was a “tired old town... there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see...”, The Great Depression affected many people. Maycomb is an example, showing how lives were and how many would be for the rest of their lives. One event at the beginning of the Depression was the stock market crash.

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Atticus told Scout and her siblings to stay home and not go to the trial but they did not listen to their father. Scout came to the trail anyways and watched as Tom Robinson was accused of beating and raping Mayella Ewell. While Mayella was being asked questions, she was asked repeatedly for her side of the story and if Mr. Robinson had been the man who had done these horrible things to her. She had each time said it was him and would look to her father to confirm her story. When Atticus confirmed what side, she was hit on he then proved that there was no way that Tom Robinson could have been the man who did all of these things to Mayella Ewell.

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Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is about a man named Atticus and his two kids Jem and Scout. Atticus was appointed to defend an African American, named Tom Robinson. Tom was accused by Bob Ewell for raping and beating his daughter, Mayellea Ewell. During the trial scene, everyone in that courtroom finds outs the truth that Tom is innocent against the accusations from Bob. The truth is that Mayella kissed Tom and Bob saw what she did.

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Harper Lee Andrew Torregrossa English 2 20 December 2022 To Kill a Mockingbird The Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis between 1929-1939. The Depression began and expanded worldwide after the stock market crash of 1929 in the United States. At the worst point in time, the Great Depression had 25% of the world unemployed. Around 13 million people.

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Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set sometime in the 1930s in Maycomb County Alabama. The story is told through the point of view of Scout Finch who lives with her father, Atticus, and brother, Jem. The kids like to play pretend with their friend Dill about the man who lives in a scary house down the road, Boo Radley. The kids come in a few close counters along the way during these games in which Atticus does not approve. Scouts’ father, a lawyer, is appointed by Judge Taylor to defend Mr. Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young girl.

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How did the time period of the novel (30’s) affect how black people were treated? One of the main themes in To Kill a Mockingbird is racial discrimination. Examples of racism and prejudice against black people can be seen throughout the novel. There are several reasons as to why people segregate dark people and they are mostly the important events happening in the 30’s. The time period of which the book was written is the 1930’s

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