Most people can agree that life is not always perfect, and that times may get hard. For most people living in Alabama during the 1930’s life was very hard. Harper Lee uses her personal experiences she faced growing up in Alabama to create a classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, that showed the hard times people went through. Harper Lee comments on life in the 1930’s through her novel To Kill a Mockingbird by creating similarities with real life situations of the time.
Harper Lee reveals the dark side of life in the south for African Americans through the fictional case of Tom Robinson. In the book, Tom is falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young poor white women in town. Lee uses this case to portray the unfairness of real life in the justice system during the 1930’s because there were nine young black men falsely accused of raping two white women. Like the case, Tom has little evidence against him, but in both real life and the book, the defendents are found guilty and sentenced to life. Harper Lee uses Tom to reveal the unfairness black people face in everyday life including the court system where they should be treated as equals. …show more content…
She describes the Cunningham family as a poor farming family that was hit very hard by the great depression. This is similar to real life because the majority of Americans felt the impact of the stock market crash. Lee even describes a time where Mr. Cunningham needed Atticus’s legal help, but he could not pay him with money, so instead he paid him with material goods such as wood and nuts until Atticus told him he had paid enough. Through this story, Lee creates a situation that is very real for the majority of Americans and allows them to connect with a fictional
Harper Lee reveals the dark side of life in the south for African Americans through the fictional case of Tom Robinson. In the book, Tom is falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young poor white women in town. Lee uses this case to portray the unfairness of real life in the justice system during the 1930’s because there were nine young black men falsely accused of raping two white women. Like the case, Tom has little evidence against him, but in both real life and the book, the defendents are found guilty and sentenced to life. Harper Lee uses Tom to reveal the unfairness black people face in everyday life including the court system where they should be treated as equals. …show more content…
She describes the Cunningham family as a poor farming family that was hit very hard by the great depression. This is similar to real life because the majority of Americans felt the impact of the stock market crash. Lee even describes a time where Mr. Cunningham needed Atticus’s legal help, but he could not pay him with money, so instead he paid him with material goods such as wood and nuts until Atticus told him he had paid enough. Through this story, Lee creates a situation that is very real for the majority of Americans and allows them to connect with a fictional