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To Kill a mockingbird

By: Harper Lee. To Kill a mockingbird. A tale of: Human behavior Innocence and experience, Kindness and cruelty, Love and hatred, Humor and suffering…. The basic plot. A novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the “crisis of conscience” that rocked it. .

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To Kill a mockingbird

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  1. By: Harper Lee To Kill a mockingbird

  2. A tale of: Human behavior Innocence and experience, Kindness and cruelty, Love and hatred, Humor and suffering… The basic plot A novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the “crisis of conscience” that rocked it.

  3. 1930’s trial in northern Alabama • A charge of rape made by low class white women again African American men. • The judge went against public sentiment and overturned a guilty jury against the African American men. • The jury did not include any African Americans and overlooked evidence that the woman suffered no injuries. • Attitudes towards Southern women and poor whites complicated the trial. Based on Real Life: The Scottsboro Trials

  4. Area of major Ku Klux Klan activity and race riots in the early 1900’s Like all states, Alabama is divided into counties. In the story, the setting is “Maycomb” county. Maycomb is a fictitious county, but based on a combination of towns in the South at this time period. Setting : Maycomb County, Alabama

  5. Former slave states People still felt they were superior to citizens of color; keeping inequality alive. The minority population started to rebel against being treated as third-class citizens. Hatred in the 1930’s South

  6. KluKlux Klan = A southern white supremacist group organized in small towns to ensure that blacks would not enjoy the freedom they were granted in the civil war. “white trash” = White citizens who were so poor they were looked down on and despised. These people hated blacks because they were in the same income bracket and societal scrutiny. Hatred in the 1930’s South

  7. Largest sustained economic decline in industrial production and productivity in the time since records had been kept. Hoover was president, succeeded by Roosevelt • Characteristics of the time included • A failure of financial institutions • High unemployment rate • A consistent wage rate. . The great depression

  8. Depression Housing

  9. New York City, Central Park

  10. Upper class remained employed and wealthy. Middle class crumbled and lower class lived in poverty Upper class began to resent the lower classes because they were asked to support new programs with tax money. Class Conflict

  11. In 2001, Blink-182 band members Tom Delonge and Mark Hoppus created the clothing line Atticus Clothing, named after the character in this book. Similarly, the female line of the brand is called Scout. The brand's logo is a dead bird. In one episode of The Simpsons Homer shows his ignorance once again saying, "I vowed never to read again after To Kill a Mockingbird gave me no useful advice on killing mockingbirds! It did teach me not to judge a man by the color of his skin, but when am I ever gonna use that?" InterestingUse of a Novel

  12. Banning a book…

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