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When was To Kill A Mockingbird published, and what makes that year so special?
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1960 - just before the Black Civil Rights movement took off in America.
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When and where was To Kill A Mockingbird based?
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Alabama, in the 1930s.
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What is significant about the time period in which To Kill A Mockingbird was based (as in, historical events) ?
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It was during The Great Depression.
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What event may have Harper Lee based part of her novel around?
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The Scottsboro Case: Nine young black men were arrested on suspision of raping two white women, and despite very prominent lawyers arguing that the accusations were false, all nine men were given long prison sentences. It later emerged that, indeed, the women were lying.
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Why did Atticus make it his duty to sit outside Tom Robinson's prison cell in To Kill A Mockingbird?
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Because if he hadn't, Tom Robinson would have been lynched (hung) by the gang that showed up; it was very common during The Great Depression.
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There is a huge racial tension in Maycomb throughout To Kill A Mockingbird - but despite the fact that the story is based in the 20th century, when was the slave trade abolished?
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1865 - that's more than half a century before.
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Scout and Jem get in trouble a lot throughout To Kill A Mockingbird for spending time with people considered of a lower class than their family, black people especially. What is the formal name for such seperations of class, and can you give three real examples of it that are also found in the novel?
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Segregation - examples of it are:
Black people could not mix with white people in public occasions - in the novel, the black people sat upstairs whilst the whites were downstairs. Black people had their own community buildings and could not go into 'White Only' ones: they were forced to build their own schools, cemeteries, churches, shops, etc. Black people could only marry other black people - that's why Maycomb sees Mr Raymond (a man who had children with a black woman) as an evil man. Another example is when Scout is forbidden to visit Walter Cunningham and Calpurnia - it would not be right for a rich white child to be seen socialising with such low class people. |
