What Are The Similarities Between Of Mice And Men And To Kill A Mockingbird

Nick Breighner Miss Marconi Accel American Literature 27 March 2024 The Great Impact of Steinbeck and Harper Lee “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (Harper Lee). This quote structures Harper Lee’s importance in the 1960’s. While, in that time period, the United States citizens began to face the greatest point of the Civil Rights movement, Harper Lee decided to focus on the 1930’s, to focus on her life growing up in the Great Depression. Another important writer, John Steinbeck, also chose to tackle this idea of the 1930’s, who also primarily depicted forms of injustice. Their highest progressive movements in their lives came from their literature. Some of their most influential pieces are seen as, Of Mice and Men, for Steinbeck, and unarguably the most influential piece from

From this concept, certain characters in each book show how these inequalities are depicted within the stories, and how they affect the characters. In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, both novels depict unequal treatment of African Americans, economic and class inequalities, and share how each of these injustices shape the characters in each book. The first depiction of injustice includes the racial injustice towards African Americans. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses heavy focus on the character of Tom Robinson, who was charged on an account of rape. While in court, it was proven multiple times that he was not guilty. Despite this, Tom still lost the case, and ended up in jail. Harper Lee depicted with these events that African Americans were deprived of fair court, and were victims of white anger and resentment. This can be seen further with how citizens of Maycomb were going to the jail Tom was temporarily kept from killing him before the trial even