Context for TKAM
- Created by: emma brittain
- Created on: 02-05-16 14:16
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About the author:
- she was born in monroeville
- to kill a mockingbird makes use of prolepsis (scout links to the author)
- her father was a lawyer
- she was a tomboy and avid reader, just like scout
- the 'scotsborough trials' - april 1931. nine african american men were falsely accused of ****** two white women. the all-white jury sentenced all of them to death. this trail very closesly links to that of the trail of tom robinson in the novel.
The economic depression 1933-35:
- following the Wall Street Crash
- poverty swept the country
- president roosevelt made substantial attempts at economic recovery
- he told the people 'they had nothing to fear but fear itself'. (this is also a line within the novel)
- took time to…
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