Analysis Of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

History has shaped who we are, and where are we from. Harper Lee in “To Kill a Mockingbird” tries to present many important historical event in the story. Lee chooses the 1930 s in Alabama as the setting of the story, a time frame where poverty and unemployment were widespread in United States because of the Great Depression. The story contrasts the social cast of the southern life, the racial injustice, gender role, laws and loss of innocence. Lee through the story tries to highlights an overall atmosphere of oppression and inequality during the thirties. Social classes are created to separate people based on their skin color and occupation, in To Kill a Mockingbird, for example Atticus, Scout and Jem are part of the highest social

It is our church, ain 't it, Miss Cal?" (Lee 20 ), it was not limited to churches only but also movie theaters, bathrooms, schools. The services in the other hand were high quality for the white Vis low quality for black people. White people had no respect toward African Americans, in fact they considered black people as children and unsophisticated people, in To Kill a Mockingbird young black men were called boys as an example of diminishment as the writer states “They collectively form the context within which they are individually placed so that women, children, and racial minorities are generally considered like each other (feminine, immature, less intelligent) as well as being dirty, uncivilized, closer to nature, and any other losing end of a dichotomy” ( Gandy 214

Tom Robinson who was falsely accused of raping a white women ( Mayella) and been defended by Atticus, is the best example of the white injustice toward black people. “In Lee 's novel of a small southern town, the Africanist presence is muted in spite of the prominence (paradoxically) of the trial in which an innocent black man stands accused of the rape of a young white woman” (Gandy 205) In ordinary cases the trial for such a crime would have taken minutes to sentence an innocent black man in To Kill a Mockingbird thanks to Atticus there were an almost fair