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To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee. About the Author . Nelle Harper Lee Born on April 28, 1926 Born in Monroeville , Alabama (small town similar to setting of book) Lee’s father was a lawyer Only published novel. Response to TKAM.

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To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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  1. To Kill a MockingbirdBy Harper Lee

  2. About the Author • Nelle Harper Lee • Born on April 28, 1926 • Born in Monroeville, Alabama (small town similar to setting of book) • Lee’s father was a lawyer • Only published novel

  3. Response to TKAM • Mixed response to novel due to controversial material • Won the Pulitzer Price in 1961 • Sold over 30 million copies • Translated into over 40 languages • Even as recently as 2011, it still ranks in the top-ten most challenged books • Made into a film that won 3 Academy awards

  4. Setting • Maycomb, Alabama (fictional place) • 1930s (although the book was written in the 1950s) • During the Great Depression

  5. Background Information Even those with jobs were affected because nothing was being produced Average family income dropped to 50% by 1935 25% of population had no job Stock Market Crash caused people to lose billions. Entire banks were wiped out and by 1933 over 60% of population was considered poor GREAT DEPRESSION Hundreds of thousands lost homes, farms and possessions A period of extreme drought, poverty and hardships during the 1930s. The novel takes place during the mid-1930s at a time when the government was attempting to stop the Great Depression. The President at the time, Franklin Roosevelt, famously said, “the only thing to fear is fear itself” as his government created programs to create jobs, house the homeless and feed the starving.

  6. Background Information The Finches Social Inequality White folks of Maycomb & Maycomb County The Ewell Family Tom Robinson Even the law was one-sided: Juries were always all-white and all-male. The word of a black man meant nothing against the word of a white man.

  7. Racial Discrimination Although slavery ended in 1865, racial prejudice was still prominent in the 1930s (and is still today).

  8. Gender Discrimination • Women were considered “weak” • Women were not generally educated for occupations outside of the home • Men were not considered capable of nurturing children

  9. Scottsboro Case •  In 1931, when Lee was five, nine young black men were accused of raping two white women near Scottsboro, Alabama. • Five of the nine men were sentenced to long prison terms. • Many prominent lawyers and other American citizens saw the sentences as motivated only by racial prejudice. • It was also suspected that the women who had accused the men were lying.

  10. Characters • Jean Louise “Scout” Finch (narrator) • Jeremy “Jem” Finch • Atticus Finch • Arthur “Boo” Radley • Tom Robinson • Bob Ewell • Charles Baker “Dill” Harris • Etc.

  11. Narrator • The story is narrated by Scout Finch, Atticus’ daughter and Jem’s younger sister. • Begins with her as a 5 year old child • Whole story is a flashback of memories

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