What Is The Relationship Between Atticus And The Great Depression

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Sometimes, a little reading is all the therapy a person needs. Reading helps in developing our brain, while expanding our knowledge and horizons. But some books move beyond these basics and hence become timeless classics. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, is a classic that deals with the troubling topic of prejudice, in a thought-provoking and touching way.

Six-year-old “Scout” Finch lives with her elder brother Jem and her widower father Atticus, in a small and sleepy Alabama town. The story is set against the backdrop of the great depression and is the perspective of an older Scout reliving her experiences as a six-year-old.

Atticus is a successful lawyer and a man with deep rooted values of equality, fairness and empathy. Atticus’s

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