To Kill A Mocking Bird

To Kill A Mocking Bird

1. Plot

   • Racism
     • Back then Racism was a massive issue
     • Black people were seen as slaves
   • 1936
   • Great Depression
   • Very Poor Times
   • Rape
   • Based on an event that happened to her in 1936

2. Published in 1960

3. Won the Pulitzer Prize

4. Characters

   • Based on her family and friends
   • Finch
     • Atticus
     • Gem
     • Scout
   • Radley
     • Boo
   • Ewell
     • Robert
     • Mayella Violet
   • Atkinson
     • Maudie
   • Hancock
     • Alexandra
   • Robinson
     • Tom
   • Harris
     • Dill
   • Calpurnia

5. School Work

   • Themes
     • Discrimination
       • Against
         • Black People
           • For murder the penalty for black people is hanging
           • For murder the penalty for white people is jail time
         • Poor People
           • In the book One of the characters is very poor and the teacher is mocking him by telling him to take a quarter
     • Great Depression
       • Shown
         • "It's a slow town"
         • The town sounds like quite a sad place
     • Racism
       • Shown in the book
         • This is showed in the novel when Scout is being told off by his teacher for doing normal things because he's black
         • This is also shown in the book because Atticus is a lawyer specially for black people
     • Poverty
       • One of the characters has "Hookworms" which occur when you walk barefoot in a barn