For instance, we see the character Miss Gates passionately condemning Hitler’s antisemitic actions of the Adolph Hitler dictatorship but passionately supporting injustice and discrimination against blacks in her own community. Hitler’s rule in Germany is used as a backdrop to show the extent of hypocrisy, bigotry, and multiple moral standards some Southern white people have when it comes to race and racism.
Adolph Hitler became the ruler of Germany in 1933 and ruled until his suicide in 1945. To Kill a Mockingbird makes allusions to the totalitarian rule and antisemitic policies of Adolf Hitler in Germany. This description is realistic because farmers were badly hit by the depression as crop prices fell by about 60 percent during the period. The Cunningham family, who are farmers, are described to be so poor that they cannot afford to feed well or to pay for legal services.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, the narrator remarks that everyone is poor but in relation to others, the farmers are the most impoverished by the economic depression. The Great Depression was a period of severe economic depression that began in the United States and spread across the world from the year 1929 to 1939.
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the Jim Crow laws are still in effect in the setting, and an indication of this is in Jem and Scout’s cluelessness about the lives of black people when they follow Calpurnia to the Black people’s church and in the decidedly secluded part of town meant for blacks only. These Southern states rationalized this discriminatory policy with the phrase ”seperate but equal”, but in actuality, the public facilities allotted to the blacks were significantly inferior to those for the whites. The state built separate schools for blacks and whites, separate compartments in public transport vehicles, black people were not allowed into hotels and banks for white people, and the residential area for blacks was separated from that of whites. The Jim Crow era is a period ranging from the late 1880s to the mid-1960s when local and state laws, mostly in Southern states of the US, enforced racial segregation in all public facilities and stringent voting requirements that disenfranchised some poor white people and a majority of the black population. Both the era of the novel’s setting and the timing of its writing and publication combine to give it a profound historical context. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in a 1930s Southern small town in Alabama, USA, but was written in the late 1950s and published in 1960.
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