Maycomb Great Depression

To Kill A Mockingbird: The County of Maycomb In To Kill A Mockingbird, the County of Maycomb went through hardship during the Great Depression. For example, the citizens of Maycomb experienced economic struggles, racial discrimination, and lack of employment due to the Great Depression. In the first chapter of the book, Scout describes Maycomb County as “an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. She notes, “A day was twenty-four long but it seemed longer. There was no hurry

Maycomb was a “tired old town...there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see...”To Kill a Mockingbird is in the 1930s in Maycomb,Alabama. There were no phones, TV, or the internet, there were some major social and economic differences. Maycomb County, is in a state of economic decline. Communication with houses relied on dirt roads, and all the county people, whether professional people or farmers. In late 1929 the economic prosperity

Word Count: 640 Oliver Norris 8A 2-13-16 In the early 1930’s some of The Great Depression’s darkest times were taking place. In the early years of the depression, President Franklin Roosevelt’s promises and famous saying,” The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself,” had not yet taken place. His words of encouragement had not yet struck hope into the hearts of many Americans. With the stock market crash and the sudden and dramatic unemployment of millions, Americans were struggling financially

were ruined (Shindo 538). Harper Lee shows the effects of the Great Depression in her novel. To Kill a Mockingbird describes the fictional town, Maycomb, during the 1930s. The novel introduces the social status of the townspeople in Maycomb, in Alabama, whose lives had been flustered by the Great Depression. Social divisions are shown throughout the story, and economical and racial issues are main causes of the segregation in Maycomb county. Rigid social divisions throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, starts off describing Maycomb as a sleepy, "tired old town." Which was a result from the Great Depression. Remind you, the Great Depression is one of, if not, the darkest times in American history. It was the worst economic downturn in industrialized world. Thus, it every some town, including Maycomb. With no money, and no means to make money, the people in Maycomb moved at a slow pace, because of the financial distress. On the other hand, when talking about

Maycomb was in a phase of diversity. In the beginning the story, readers learn about the state of Maycomb. One of the main things that are apparent is the economic classes of Maycomb. In the story, Jem tells the reader about social class when he explains it to his sister Scout, “‘There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes’” (page 226).

Prize winning novel has taught many people about the reality of life in the mid 1900’s and is a book that captures the attention of the reader as soon as they first pick it up. This amazing book written by Harper Lee is set in a small town called Maycomb, which is located in Alabama. It is set in the 1930’s a time between the rush of the roaring twenties and the distress of World War II in the 1940’s. This was a time when the economy was low and money was scarce for both races, Whites and African

novel. It represents innocence, like that of Tom Robinson 's. In Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird, which is based upon a true story, Tom Robinson, a man accused of rape, Scout Finch, a tomboy and lawyer’s daughter that observes occurrences in Maycomb, resists racist comments, and does not always understand things, who is also the narrator of the publication, both in a childish fashion and in an adult like fashion, and Atticus, a lawyer who is intelligent, respected and respecting, and defends

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. In Maycomb, there are a variety of different people in different classes. During the Great Depression, in Maycomb, there were few wealthy people. The Finch’s would be considered one of the highest family on the caste system. Then there would be the Cunninghams, the Ewells, and at the bottom would be the black population

Harper Lee wrote that Maycomb was a “tired old town...there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see...” To Kill a Mockingbird is a story that is placed around the late 20’s or early 30’s, and it focuses on a small town called Maycomb that is in the grips of a national crisis known as the Great Depression and a restrictive set of segregation laws called the Jim Crow Laws. The Great Depression started affecting the country in 1929 and left