To+Kill+A+Mockingbird


 * Author Bio Sketch**
 * Harper Lee**: (**1926 - ? ) She was born in Monroville Alabama. She is the youngest out of four children. She grew up as a wealthy child and she lived in a very small town. She was not really a girly girl she was a tomboy. Her dad was a memeber of the Alabama legistlater, he was also a lawyer and he owned some of the newspaper. Her mother had a mental illness and she barley left the house to go places , they thought that she might of had bipolar syndrome.**


 * When she was growing up she had a very close friend that is now also a writer and he is Truman Capote. He is known as Truman persons. When Harper Lee was in high school she gained a intrest in english lititeaure . After she graduated high school she went to the University of Alabama. People knew her as a loner and she was just self dependent and did not re lie on anyone but herself. She tried to talk to people and become more social so she joined a sorority but that did help. She was pursusing her dream of becoming a writer and she was apart of the schools newspaper. In her junior year of collage she got accepted into law school. When she went there she wrote to her parents and said that law school was not for her writing was for her and she dropped out of law school and went to England in the summer to a collage as a exchange student. When she was 23 she moved into the city she was struggling. she later bumped into a old friend and they became really good friends. As a christmas present for her he helped her out so she could be a full time writer. He also helped her get a agent and later one they published her first novel called " Go set a watchman". In 1960 she published her second novel " To Kill A Mocking Bird" . Lee is still living a privet life in New york and sometimes Monroville Alabama.**



**HISTORICAL CONTEXT**


 * Jim Crow Laws**
 * **They were laws that were locally and around the states for segregation**
 * **They segregated the blacks from the whites in public**
 * **The blacks were treated differently from the whites socially and economically**
 * **Public schools, transportations and stuff like water fountains were segregated**
 * **It lasted from 1875 to 1965**


 * Great Depression**
 * **It was a economic down pour**
 * **Lasted from 1929 till 1939**
 * **It was the longest and the worst economic down pour of the industrialized world**
 * **12 - 15 million people were unemployed**
 * **It started in the United States but then it began to be a worldwide depression**


 * Adolf hitler and the Holocaust**
 * **He seized power on January 30th 1933**
 * **He wanted to erase the jewish race**
 * **He tried to take over the government in Germany**
 * **From trying to take over he got arrested and sentenced to 5 years in jail**
 * **In 1930 a depression hit Germany and hitler promised to take the Jews and the Communists out of there**


 * Civil Rights Movement**
 * **It was a movement so that all Americans got treated equally** **regardless of the color of there skin.**


 * Character illustrations**


 * Jem Finch ( Jeremy Finch ) - Speakers brother, 4 year age difference , Jeremy Atticus Finch , He respects his dad a lot , he gets really mean and mad at his younger sister which is scout.**


 * Scout Finch - Speaker, shes a girl , 6 years old , her real name is Jean Louis Finch , She is a tom boy and hangs around Jem and all of his friends , She gets mad when her Aunt Alexandra makes her wear dresses and tells her she should be dressing lady like.**
 * Scout reminds me of the girl from the Sandlot 2 because they both are not lady like and girly and they always want to hang out with the boys.[[image:Unknown-1.jpeg width="173" height="185"]]**


 * Atticus Finch - He is a very brave man he is the father of Scout and Jem finch he is a lawyer in maycomb.**


 * Calpurnia - She is the maid for Atticus, she is black and she is more like a mother figure for Jem and Scout.**


 * Bob Ewell - he is a drunk and he is really rude, he is dirty and he smells , He is Mayellas dad.**
 * Bob reminds me of just a hobo who cant afford that much and just drink all the time and smells.[[image:Unknown-2.jpeg width="130" height="234"]]**


 * Dill Harris - He is a kid and scouts friend, He is very dramatic of what he says and the story's he tells.**
 * Dill reminds me of Chuckie off of the rugrats because they both over exaggerate things[[image:images.jpeg width="102" height="218"]]**


 * Tom Robinson - He is a black guy, he got his arm caught in a machine so he has a limp arm , He is very nice and does most the things that people ask him to do.**


 * Mayella Ewell - She is a 16 year old girl, she really don't have any friends , She lives by the garbage dump , she is really not that clean.**
 * She reminds me of Curly's wife from the book "Of Mice And Men"[[image:Unknown.jpeg width="178" height="132"]]**


 * Aunt Alexandra - She is Jem and Scouts Aunt, She thinks that everything should go her way and thats it , She is crazy , and she is also very demanding.**


 * Element Analysis**


 * Symbolism -(Pg 44) -When Boo Radley put the two pieces of gum and tin foil in the tree stump that symbolizes friendship and him being nice to the kids.**


 * (Pg 284) -Jem starts crying after he hears the verdict of Tom Robinson and his tears symbolize that he is sad and upset of what Tom was sentenced to and how they where treating Tom.**


 * (Pg ) - The mocking bird symbolizes peace and innocence to everyone so if you hurt the mocking bird then your in the wrong.**


 * (Chapt 28 ) - Scout is telling about what happened when Jem broke her arm and she is telling it from inside her costume and the symbolizing part is when she cant see from inside it and it is mainly talking about blind people and how they cant see.**


 * (Pg ? ) When Boo Radley gave the kids the pocket watch is smbolyizes a father because a father usually gives them the pocket watch.**


 * (Chapt 11) When Ms.Dubose gave Jem a flower at the end of the chapter that symbolizes life love and like friendship and that she is forgiving Jem.**


 * Imagery - (Pg 6) It just talks about how the town is an how the people act and what they look like and how everything works in the town and you get a good image about what is happening.**


 * (Pg 212) Scout is talking about how everyone was walking lesiurly into town and going to the court house for the trial and that part has a lot of imagery.**


 * (Pg 62 ) - Dill and Jem planned to take a fishing pole and stick a note at the end of it and put it through the shutters on the inside of the house that has a lot of imagery.**


 * (Pg 156 ) - Calpurnia talks about how they are going to go to church with her instead of going to their church and no one is really there to watch over them because last time they tied the lady up and put her in the boiler room.**


 * (Pg 186 ) - Dill was saying that he ran away because his new dad tied him up in he basement and starved him and left him down there to die.**


 * Point of view**


 * The whole book is a flashback to what happened and how Jem broke his arm Scout was just telling it how it happened and she went way back for the flashback.**


 * Irony- (Pg 329 ) Miss Gates was talking about a lesson about Hitler and how he was treating the Jews but what is ironic about that lesson is that she is basically being a hypocrite because she is doing the same thing about black people and about the Tom Robinson case.**


 * (Pg ? ) Miss Caroline is upset and mad that scout already knows how to read and what is ironic about it is that she should be happy for scout because thats like one less person she has to teach how to read.**


 * (Pg 320 ) There was a bug in Jem and Scouts room and Scout was about to kill the bug but Jem said no the bug didn't do anything to you don't kill it or bother it because it didn't bother you. This is ironic because everyone in the town mainly is picking on the black people and on Tom and trying to give him something and kill him for something that he didn't do.**