Background TKaM 2
- Created by: Qiao-Chu
- Created on: 17-03-13 17:20
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- Background to To Kill a Mockingbird
- Links to History in the Novel
- Finch family history linked to Southern history - Simon Finch had three slaves helping him build family home
- Until Atticus went to law school, they farmed cotton
- Cotton was major crop in the South and slaves were used to harvest it
- People of Maycomb proud of family and town history - Scout introduces on first page
- Maycomb
- Is not real place - could be any Southern town
- Similar to Alabama in the 1930s
- Layout of town in detail, familiar townspeople - wants Maycomb to be recognisable, prejudice anywhere
- Lots of prejudiced people, but with good qualities - how likeable people have prejudices, racism normal part of life
- Nothing changes, snow is rare - town stuck in its ways, take time to change attitudes
- 1930s America
- 1929 stock market collapsed - Wall Street Crash - causing the Great Depression
- Affected crop prices and demand for coal and wood
- Unemployment, income dropped by 40% between 1929 and 1932, homeless
- Roosevelt's New Deal
- Franklin D Roosevelt electded President November 1932
- New Deal - government programmes to help America recover
- Economy began to recover but slow progress
- Created optimism and improved lives, but lots of suffering especially farmers who were trying to recover after slavery abolishment
- Links to History in the Novel
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