“History, despite wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” In the novel entitled To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee a novel that focus on innocents, with a straightforward sense of what's good and what’s evil. There are many historical events happening. The novel is set in Maycomb county, Alabama, and it deals with racial and social class prejudice. Throughout the novel Harper Lee divides it into three historical events: racial inequality, the Jim Crow South, and the Great Depression.
First of all, racial segregation is happening throughout the novel. Segregation has been a problem in the United States for an extended amount of time, the most well known form being racial separation. Racial segregation was used to separate …show more content…
Just don't start up them there stairs yet awhile” (Lee 218). This quote shows how the old white man was trying to stop the “negroes” from going up those stairs, because they weren't allowed to sit with the white people. Also when Jem is very confident that his father is going to win tFollowing that, is the Jim Crow South and the Jim Crow laws which was another historical event that occurred. The Jim Crow laws are the act of segregating african american where they were forced to follow regulations between 1877 and the mid 1960s. During this time whites were superior to blacks in all ways. The south was mainly the ones that supported the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow was a series of anti-black laws, and a way of life for some people. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were set to the status of second-class citizens. For instance, at the beginning of Tom’s trial it says, “Whoa now, just a minute, said a club member, holding up his walking stick. Just don’t start up them there stairs yet awhile” (Lee 218). That quote shows that the black people had to wait on the white people to be seated before they could enter and find a seat of their own. A black male could not offer his hand with a white male,
First of all, racial segregation is happening throughout the novel. Segregation has been a problem in the United States for an extended amount of time, the most well known form being racial separation. Racial segregation was used to separate …show more content…
Just don't start up them there stairs yet awhile” (Lee 218). This quote shows how the old white man was trying to stop the “negroes” from going up those stairs, because they weren't allowed to sit with the white people. Also when Jem is very confident that his father is going to win tFollowing that, is the Jim Crow South and the Jim Crow laws which was another historical event that occurred. The Jim Crow laws are the act of segregating african american where they were forced to follow regulations between 1877 and the mid 1960s. During this time whites were superior to blacks in all ways. The south was mainly the ones that supported the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow was a series of anti-black laws, and a way of life for some people. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were set to the status of second-class citizens. For instance, at the beginning of Tom’s trial it says, “Whoa now, just a minute, said a club member, holding up his walking stick. Just don’t start up them there stairs yet awhile” (Lee 218). That quote shows that the black people had to wait on the white people to be seated before they could enter and find a seat of their own. A black male could not offer his hand with a white male,