For hundreds of years, America has struggled with injustices that continuously chip at and destroy her roots. These are the same roots that promise life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for all of her people. Jim Crow laws, popular starting in the 19th century and stretching even until the 1960s, are one of the issues that have placed this American promise in jeopardy. Consistently, these laws have aided in maintaining segregation and unjust treatment of African Americans in American society. Within Harper Lee’s fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the audience is subjected to the harsh impact of Jim Crow in Maycomb, Alabama through which the innocent narrator, Scout Finch, struggles to understand the justification for such biased laws.
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Though some critics have attacked Lee's narration as weak and suggested that the use of first person creates problems with perspective because the major participant, first-person narrator must appear almost in all scenes, the novel's consistent use of first person makes it much clearer than the film that the reader is seeing all the events through a female child's eyes. Once the children enter the courtroom in the film, the center of attention is the adult world of Atticus Finch and the rape trial -- not, as the book is able to suggest, the children's perceptions of the events which unravel before them. Guion Griffis Johnson was among the first generation of female professional historians and a pioneer of social history. Her book Ante-bellum North Carolina provides a comprehensive study of how people maintained and sometimes traversed social divisions in this state. In this interview, she discusses the work she did for Dr. Howard Odum of the University of North Carolina sociology department from 1923 until 1934. She lists the community activities she participated in during and after this period. While her husband, Guy Johnson, taught for the Institute for Research in Social Science, she copyedited issues of the Social Forces journal, conducted research on St. Helena's Island and antebellum North Carolina, and worked toward a Ph.D. in sociology. When the workload became too …show more content…
Her book Ante-bellum North Carolina provides a comprehensive study of how people maintained and sometimes traversed social divisions in this state. In this interview, she discusses the work she did for Dr. Howard Odum of the University of North Carolina sociology department from 1923 until 1934. She lists the community activities she participated in during and after this period. While her husband, Guy Johnson, taught for the Institute for Research in Social Science, she copyedited issues of the Social Forces journal, conducted research on St. Helena's Island and antebellum North Carolina, and worked toward a Ph.D. in sociology. When the workload became too cumbersome and tedious, she transferred to the history department to finish her Ph.D. She lost her job with the Institute in 1930 when the University cut costs by laying off married female academics. The interview ends with her description of how she continued to work without receiving wages before going back to Baylor College as a professor. While her husband, Guy Johnson, taught for the Institute for Research in Social Science, she copyedited issues of the Social Forces journal, conducted research on St. Helena's Island and antebellum North Carolina, and worked toward a Ph.D. in sociology. When the workload became too cumbersome and tedious, she transferred to the history department to finish her Ph.D.
Though some critics have attacked Lee's narration as weak and suggested that the use of first person creates problems with perspective because the major participant, first-person narrator must appear almost in all scenes, the novel's consistent use of first person makes it much clearer than the film that the reader is seeing all the events through a female child's eyes. Once the children enter the courtroom in the film, the center of attention is the adult world of Atticus Finch and the rape trial -- not, as the book is able to suggest, the children's perceptions of the events which unravel before them. Guion Griffis Johnson was among the first generation of female professional historians and a pioneer of social history. Her book Ante-bellum North Carolina provides a comprehensive study of how people maintained and sometimes traversed social divisions in this state. In this interview, she discusses the work she did for Dr. Howard Odum of the University of North Carolina sociology department from 1923 until 1934. She lists the community activities she participated in during and after this period. While her husband, Guy Johnson, taught for the Institute for Research in Social Science, she copyedited issues of the Social Forces journal, conducted research on St. Helena's Island and antebellum North Carolina, and worked toward a Ph.D. in sociology. When the workload became too …show more content…
Her book Ante-bellum North Carolina provides a comprehensive study of how people maintained and sometimes traversed social divisions in this state. In this interview, she discusses the work she did for Dr. Howard Odum of the University of North Carolina sociology department from 1923 until 1934. She lists the community activities she participated in during and after this period. While her husband, Guy Johnson, taught for the Institute for Research in Social Science, she copyedited issues of the Social Forces journal, conducted research on St. Helena's Island and antebellum North Carolina, and worked toward a Ph.D. in sociology. When the workload became too cumbersome and tedious, she transferred to the history department to finish her Ph.D. She lost her job with the Institute in 1930 when the University cut costs by laying off married female academics. The interview ends with her description of how she continued to work without receiving wages before going back to Baylor College as a professor. While her husband, Guy Johnson, taught for the Institute for Research in Social Science, she copyedited issues of the Social Forces journal, conducted research on St. Helena's Island and antebellum North Carolina, and worked toward a Ph.D. in sociology. When the workload became too cumbersome and tedious, she transferred to the history department to finish her Ph.D.