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genre BILDUNGSROMAN or coming-of-age novel, social novel setting the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression; story begins summer 1933 and ends on Halloween night 1935 summer 1933 ends Halloween night 1935 climax trial of Tom Robinson or Bob Ewell attack protagonist Scout antagonist Bob Ewell point of view first person, Scout where written NYC and Monroeville literary period Modernism Southern literature subset in which this book falls since it deals both explicitly and implicitly with themes and issues that were uniquely Southern Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain connection with troublemaking kids see unfairness of community and society with blacks Scottsboro Trials 1931, nine black teenage boys accused of rape two white girls, see packet, five of nine convicted after six years jail; one girl took back testimony, base of TR trial cash poor white farmers often this, wealth in assets "New Deal" Franklin D. Roosevelt's program trying to improve the desperate situation see war materials part on page 3 Jim Crow Laws discriminatory laws, separated blacks and whites more + discrimination examples in law "blacks" not given legal representation and not considered for jury duty in many places 1964 US Senate passed Civil Rights Act not yet passed when TKAM published