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