To Kill A Mockingbird Research Paper

The story “To Kill A Mockingbird” is set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression where race, gender, and class play a big role in society. In the book the readers will hear two different perspectives from Scout Finch (Jean Louise). You will hear from her younger and older self about the events going on in the town of Maycomb Alabama including the trial of Tom Robinson. In the story we are introduced to Mayella Ewell. Mayella is a poor white girl who lives behind the dump with her father, Bob Ewell and her eight other siblings. She is very lonely because none of the white community will talk to her because she lives in the African American community, and none of the African Americans will talk to her because she is white. During the story she accused Tom Robinson of raping her and that is where the main conflict of the book happens. We wonder how much does race, gender, and class play a role in the trial of Tom Robinson? The time setting for this story was during The Great Depression so most people in the story where very poor, including Mayella Ewell and her family. They lived near the African American community, behind the dump which was one of the worst places to live. Her house was an abandoned house that had once been a home for

The white community and African American Community did not mix. But when they did it would cause a lot of controversy, like when Mayella Ewell said that she was raped by an African American by the name of Tom Robinson that started an immediate uproar. Not only because of their race, because Mayella is a white woman and Tom is a colored man. In that time there were laws in that time period called the Jim Crow Laws that stated “No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls”, that shows you how much against they were white women interacting with colored men. So Mayella did have an advantage since her