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To Kill a Mockingbird Notes Harper Lee Notes Time Period Notes

Written in the mid-1950s Written in New York City Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama Set between the years of 1933 and 1935 Scout Finch is the protagonist. To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee Full name: Nelle Harper Lee Born in Monroeville, Alabama Truman Capote: best friend and next door neighbor to Lee Lee based the character Dill on Capote Harper Lee Truman Capote

Harper Lee (cont’d) Lee accompanied Capote to Kansas in 1960 when he was researching for his book In Cold Blood. Lee’s father was a lawyer, providing information on the character Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the novel. Speculated to be a descendant of Robert E. Lee; other sources are not certain Based the last name of the family in the novel after her mother’s maiden name: Finch

Harper Lee (cont’d) Lee based the protagonist, Scout, primarily on herself Broadway composer Michael Brown and his wife supported Lee for a year so she could begin writing To Kill a Mockingbird was her only novel

Jim Crow Laws During the time period in which the book was written, African Americans were by the law free, but the Jim Crow Laws made it difficult for African Americans to find the same equality as whites.

Jim Crow Laws (cont’d) States imposed legal punishments on those who consorted with others of another race.

Jim Crow Laws (cont’d) African Americans and whites could not share public facilities freely: buses, trains, restaurants, pool rooms, public restrooms, and much more.

Jim Crow Laws (cont’d) Meant to keep things separate but equal; however, separate did not mean equal The racial segregation laws held strong from 1877 until the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s.

Jim Crow Laws (cont’d) Some portions of the North might have held to the Jim Crow Laws, but as a whole the South enforced the laws very strictly.

Jim Crow Laws (cont’d) Characters of To Kill a Mockingbird find themselves caught in a struggle between the Jim Crow Laws and what they know is morally right.