"You aren 't really a nigger-lover, then, are you?" "I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody... I 'm hard put, sometimes—baby, it 's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn 't hurt you." (Lee 144-145) This is dialogue between a father Atticus and his daughter Scout
Harper lee was influenced by so many things throughout her life to write her widely known novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Some of these things were the Jim Crow Laws, or the destructive KKK, or her simply growing up as a lawyer’s child and many other things. Racial relations in the 1960s were intense and drastic compared to what we know now. This was the time Harper Lee, one of the …show more content…
Soon after that time, a major case for the fight against segregation was the Brown vs. Board education case. They said it was unequal for black children to have separate facilities in 1954 (“1950s” 3). Many of the whites from the South hated the Brown ruling. They even took their kids out of public schools and enrolled them in an all white private schools (“1950s” 3). Another example of people fighting back against segregation was December in 1955, a black women named Rosa Parks, who was a Montgomery Activist, did not give up her seat to a white man on a city bus, and then was arrested for it (“ 1950s” 3). Not long after, Lee came to New York when she was thirty years old to pursue her love for writing in 1956 (Braswell 1). She got a job in New York as a ticket agent for a British overseas airway company (Braswell 1). Soon after moving to New York, Lee was introduced to a broadway composer named Micheal Brown and Joy, his wife who was a Balanchine dancer, by her childhood friend and neighbor, Truman Capote (Braswell 1). She was very devoted to her writing, every free moment she had she spent writing (Braswell 1).Luckily, she was generously given a year off by the Browns to write whatever she would like. During that time the KKK was active and influencing everyone either for them or against them. Before Lee started writing, the KKK society got worn out by the great …show more content…
Today 750,000 copies of To Kill a Mockingbird still sell every year (Braswell 1). We’ve seen through Lee’s life and in her book that taking sides against or for segregation comes with its costs, whether it is in a peaceful or violent way, many people take a stand for what they believe in and try to influence others to do the same. In 2012, Harper Lee made from the novel about three million dollars a year (Kettler 1). Lee was not selfish she often used all the money she made for funding educational opportunities (Kettler 2). In 2007, she moved into assisted living due to a stroke (Kettler 3). In her last year of life, she published one last book in February of 2015. This book tells about Scout as an adult; the book is called Go Set a Watchman (“Harper Biography” 4). Sadly, not too long afterwards, she died on February 19,
Harper lee was influenced by so many things throughout her life to write her widely known novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Some of these things were the Jim Crow Laws, or the destructive KKK, or her simply growing up as a lawyer’s child and many other things. Racial relations in the 1960s were intense and drastic compared to what we know now. This was the time Harper Lee, one of the …show more content…
Soon after that time, a major case for the fight against segregation was the Brown vs. Board education case. They said it was unequal for black children to have separate facilities in 1954 (“1950s” 3). Many of the whites from the South hated the Brown ruling. They even took their kids out of public schools and enrolled them in an all white private schools (“1950s” 3). Another example of people fighting back against segregation was December in 1955, a black women named Rosa Parks, who was a Montgomery Activist, did not give up her seat to a white man on a city bus, and then was arrested for it (“ 1950s” 3). Not long after, Lee came to New York when she was thirty years old to pursue her love for writing in 1956 (Braswell 1). She got a job in New York as a ticket agent for a British overseas airway company (Braswell 1). Soon after moving to New York, Lee was introduced to a broadway composer named Micheal Brown and Joy, his wife who was a Balanchine dancer, by her childhood friend and neighbor, Truman Capote (Braswell 1). She was very devoted to her writing, every free moment she had she spent writing (Braswell 1).Luckily, she was generously given a year off by the Browns to write whatever she would like. During that time the KKK was active and influencing everyone either for them or against them. Before Lee started writing, the KKK society got worn out by the great …show more content…
Today 750,000 copies of To Kill a Mockingbird still sell every year (Braswell 1). We’ve seen through Lee’s life and in her book that taking sides against or for segregation comes with its costs, whether it is in a peaceful or violent way, many people take a stand for what they believe in and try to influence others to do the same. In 2012, Harper Lee made from the novel about three million dollars a year (Kettler 1). Lee was not selfish she often used all the money she made for funding educational opportunities (Kettler 2). In 2007, she moved into assisted living due to a stroke (Kettler 3). In her last year of life, she published one last book in February of 2015. This book tells about Scout as an adult; the book is called Go Set a Watchman (“Harper Biography” 4). Sadly, not too long afterwards, she died on February 19,