I have used race/culture lens to help me understand the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”. Braxton is known to despise black people, in general he doesn't even let one get near him(Lee, pg.209, 1960). This statement is a race lens, because this shows how much Braxton probably even more white people disliked colored people. Some still don't appreciate them and other colored people here in the United States but it had …show more content…
“For reasons unfathomable to most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year. We had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885, Atticus said”(Lee, pg.85,1960). This quote is used as a historical lens. Finally for the first time in forever Maycomb actually got freezing cold weather that hadn’t occurred since 1885. Also the grown ups a.k.a Mr. Avery said that written on the Rosetta Stone said that they season changed because kids disobeyed their parents, smoked, and made war upon each other. Scout remembered how Boo Radley tried to communicate with them through the gifts in the tree(Lee, pg.373, 1960). This statement is also a historical lens, because while telling us the story of her childhood at the end of the book she went back to the time when Boo Radley reached out to them by giving them gifts he had made for them and how she felt sorry for not giving anything in return for