The novel To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee takes place in an “old tired town; hot like a black dog” said Scout Finch Or Jean Louise Finch. Jem, Dill, and Scout have learned many things due to the setting and time of the story. During this time racism was still in affect. African Americans were treated unfairly. It was also a time of poverty and the education wasn't as good, then the lack of education led to the kids manners not being the best. This has a huge affect on the story. One main thing in the story is innocent people. They are called “MockingBirds” There are many innocent people in this story such as Tom, Scout, Boo, and Mayella. All these innocent people have some sort of discrimination. For example Tom’s is Racism. Scout isn’t
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During the 1930s the nation was hit by the Great Depression. Which then hit the South Hard. During this time the stock market broke and millions of people were unemployed. This hit the South because if you weren’t a farmer and you had a job it was gone. And the South was already poor enough, this caused it to get even poorer. In the South Racism was big. They had rules that Other states didn’t. Two of those new laws were called the Jim Crow Law stated that whites are superior than blacks, violence is allowed to keep Blacks in check, and a Black man could not shake hands with a White man. Andthe Black Codes. The Black Code was way harsher than the Jim Crow laws, it stated that Africans Americans could get arrested for pretty much anything, if they changed their job they could get penalized, and they had limited access to courts and couldn’t go to trial against a white man. They are both saying Whites are more superior than Blacks and they shouldn’t have equal rights, ever. In my opinion these are wrong, they are created the same way as other races and should be respected the same as other races, but during the 1930s people didn’t think what we think, they didn’t know what we know. All these leads to the the big points, uneducated, racism, poverty. All these points were going on in the village of Maycomb down
During the 1930s the nation was hit by the Great Depression. Which then hit the South Hard. During this time the stock market broke and millions of people were unemployed. This hit the South because if you weren’t a farmer and you had a job it was gone. And the South was already poor enough, this caused it to get even poorer. In the South Racism was big. They had rules that Other states didn’t. Two of those new laws were called the Jim Crow Law stated that whites are superior than blacks, violence is allowed to keep Blacks in check, and a Black man could not shake hands with a White man. Andthe Black Codes. The Black Code was way harsher than the Jim Crow laws, it stated that Africans Americans could get arrested for pretty much anything, if they changed their job they could get penalized, and they had limited access to courts and couldn’t go to trial against a white man. They are both saying Whites are more superior than Blacks and they shouldn’t have equal rights, ever. In my opinion these are wrong, they are created the same way as other races and should be respected the same as other races, but during the 1930s people didn’t think what we think, they didn’t know what we know. All these leads to the the big points, uneducated, racism, poverty. All these points were going on in the village of Maycomb down