Persevere to Overcome Whether people can control it or not everyday individuals are faced with difficulties and misfortune events that they must deal with. The method used to conduct oneself in such a situation could differ. They could cave in and continue on their unjust ways or they could react bravely and fight to overcome such difficulties. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a MockingBird Atticus Finch exhibits maybe the most effective way of dealing with adversity.…
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...” When the Great Depression started in the 1920’s. There were a bunch of towns like Maycomb, Alabama there were farming, families, a community, and many other things. When the stock market crashed and the Great Depression started the farming shrunk, everyone’s crops were grown and ruin, people started to get destitute and not that many people had food to eat.…
The Great Depression was “breadlines and debt”. Those two words define the depletion of resources needed helping Harper Lee to write To Kill a Mockingbird (McCabe 12). This book shows how people got through life on little to no money. Harper Lee reflects on many historical events to help form To Kill a Mockingbird. For example, there were many influences from Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and the Scottsboro trials in the novel.…
Scout doesn’t understand why they won’t accept their help when they can help them and the reason it’s because they don’t want pity since it would hurt their pride. Most of everyone in Maycomb were farmers in To Kill A Mockingbird, so most of them were poor. With The Ewell’s who are surviving off of welfare, but nobody offers them anything because, for one, Bob Ewell spends his money on alcohol instead of trying to support himself. Also that they are just mean to everyone. With that said, the novel shows how there are those who should be offered a hand and those who aren’t worthy of…
To a lot of people, economic class runs almost everything in your life. It decides what you can buy and what you can’t buy, which in turn, decides how you live and how much you enjoy that time living. Well, to me, economic class in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird affects the story substantially. Just like in the real world, economic class in the story decides how characters live and the conditions they live. To begin, one family greatly affected by their economic class are the Cunningham family.…
Overcoming Adversity Adversity comes in all shapes and sizes, ranging from having lost a valuable good to dealing with sickness or disease. The one thing that is different about people who face adversity is how they deal with it, which is clearly illustrated in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this novel , adversity is conquered in many ways. This is demonstrated through Scout, Atticus and Jems use of their wisdom, determination and bravery, to overcome societal prejudice during a very tough time in history. Throughout the novel, Jean Louise Finch is subject to numerous roadblocks that she overcomes using her strong-willed determination.…
Children in poverty are not able to have the same quality education as middle class students for other reasons than not being able to afford it. Kids in poverty will have more trouble focusing in school. Often times, kids in poverty will get in trouble more than middle class kids. That is due to how the stress of poverty impacts kids. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Burris Ewell shows similar attitude.…
Tom Robinson, an African-American man, who was represented as a “Mockingbird” in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, was wrongly accused of raping a white woman. After he went on a trail filled with unfair juries and lost the case, he was sentenced to jail, but was then brutally murdered by some guards. Based on this storyline, the main theme is social injustice, the moral unfairness in a society of colored citizens and other minorities, which is mentioned the greatest and gradually developed throughout the book.…
Many social inequalities are seen and challenged in the town of Maycomb. One example of inequality in sociaty is between males and females. We see this between Dill, Jemmand Scout. Between the kids whenever things don 't go the way they want them to or when things go wrong and someone see them and they are always questioned as to why they 've done…
Of Mice and Men: Informative Essay What is the similarity between the Great Depression and Of Mice and Men? The book, Of Mice and Men, is the story of the author, John Steinbeck that is about his experiences which is involved in the Great Depression. This story is mostly about friendship, American dreams, loneliness and companionship, and strength and weakness.…
Change The Protestant Reformation became so widespread across Europe primarily because of the printing press. Martin Luther was able to spread his ideas for change so quickly because the printing press made books cheaper and more available to the public. Books have been a method for seeking reforms in society for ages. Harper Lee uses her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, to plead for change in the unjust way people treat others.…
There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.’” (Lee 302) This is saying that even the children knew how society in Maycomb was split. There were people who had a good amount of money, people who didn’t really have money and never asked for help, others who had no money at all and lived like pigs, and the Negroes who had to work many many hours for just enough money to get by. In the beginning of the book, we get introduced to Burris Ewell.…
Histories impact on To Kill a Mockingbird During the 1930’s the United States was in a time of great poverty and segregation. The Great Depression was in full swing and the town of Maycomb, Alabama was right in the middle of it. Harper Lee integrated real-life events as stimulus for her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, there are connections to the Jim Crow laws, mob/herd mentality, and the Scottsboro trials. The Jim Crow laws were written to limit the rights of black people, and to repress their role and place in society.…
Some stories aren’t meant to be told but single stories are supposed to be told and spread throughout the world. A single story is shown throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird through three characters which lives or moments are perceived naively. Tom Robinson single story is based upon race, Dolphus Raymond is based on lifestyle, while Atticus Finch story is based on his consciousness. Tom Robinson’s story starts with a single accusation, that leads to his single story. The accusation from Mayella Ewell started the domino effect on Tom Robinson’s life.…
Some of the effects are shown through the Cunningham family. The Cunningham family is one of the poorest families in Maycomb. Walter Cunningham Sr. receives legal work from Atticus Finch. He cannot pay for it with money, so instead he pays Atticus with other things he does have. Scout states, “As the Cunningham’s had no money to pay a lawyer, they simply paid us with what they had” (Lee 28).…