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Nelle Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird

Nelle Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird. Background. Nelle Harper Lee : Born April 28, 1926- (Monroeville, AL) ( Maycomb , AL –fictional) Youngest of 3 children Tomboy (preferred overalls to dresses) Truman Capote (Dill) Wrote stories and attended trials in spare time

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Nelle Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird

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  1. Nelle Harper Lee andTo Kill a Mockingbird

  2. Background • Nelle Harper Lee : Born April 28, 1926- (Monroeville, AL) (Maycomb, AL –fictional) • Youngest of 3 children • Tomboy (preferred overalls to dresses) • Truman Capote (Dill) • Wrote stories and attended trials in spare time • Attended college to become a lawyer, but did not finish • Wrote TKAM as a short story then expanded it into a novel • TKAM published in 1960 • Awarded Pulitzer Prize in 1961 • Translated into 10 languages • Academy award winning film in 1962 • Amasa Coleman Lee father lawyer editor state senator Atticus Finch • Francis Finch Lee mother not present in TKAM

  3. Historical Background • Great Depression—1930s • Maycomb is a farm community • Stock market crash of 1929 Spending dwindled, factories and stores closed, consumption of farm products declined • Height of the Depression (1933) 13 million Americans had no jobs 750,000 farmers had lost their land • New Deal—Roosevelt • Created gov. agencies which provided jobs • FCA created which extended credit to farmers

  4. Societal Context • African Americans considered “second-class” citizens • Segregation • Social Hierarchy: Middle Class Whites, African Americans, Poor Whites (white trash) • Poor whites hated African Americans for taking their jobs

  5. Themes and Topics • Bildungsroman—coming of age • Prejudice: racial, social, and sexual • Education • Superstitions • Religion • Man’s inhumanity to man—It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they do nothing harmful themselves.

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