TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD CONTEXT
What is the cultural and educational background of the author?
Nelle Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the little town of Monroeville (Alabama, United States), her schoolmate and neighbour was Truman Capote (other important writer), she studied in the Huntingdon College and later she studied laws in the University of Alabama, but she didn’t like it, so she went to New York City to be a writer. Her mother was a homemaker; her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, practiced law and served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1926 to 1938.
Historical context of the story:
-The Dust Bowl: It was an ecological disaster which made most of the crops in the US disease.
-Economic depression: During the 1920s after the first world war, U.S face a great and terrible crysis, where lots of people lost everything and went on to live out of the cities to the rural areas.
During this period there were a lot of unenployed and poor people
-Discrimination and racial segregation: During this time black people still have less rights than whit people and they were constanly discriminated and separated from white people, specially in the south. An example of this were the Jim Crow laws, wich rules between 1876 and 1965 in the U.S
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