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When you were six What did you look like? Who was your favorite person? What thing did you like to do best? What did you like to eat best? Who was your hero? What was your biggest fear? What was your hope for the future ?
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Information for this Power Point came from www.neabigread.org , www.shmoop.com, and the Town of Knightdale, NC
Biography Born April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama Mother was Frances Cunningham Finch Father was Amasa Lee, a lawyer, who hoped
she would one day be a lawyer also Lee grew up as a tomboy who fought a lot;
she and Scout could have been good friends Neighbor was future author Truman Capote Moved to New York after college and
eventually wrote To Kill a Mockingbird which was published in 1960 and was on the best-seller list for 84 weeks
Writing the novel Lee’s father had unsuccessfully defended a
black man and his son in a charge of murdering a white shopowner
The trial of the Scottsboro Boys occurred during the 1930s, trial of nine black young men accused of raping two white women
These incidents among others stirred Lee’s social conscience
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 TKM was made into a movie in 1962
Format of the novel Story is told as a flashback from an adult
Scout and begins by telling readers that when Jem was 13 he broke his arm
The novel has two main plot lines which come together by the end1. Seeing “Boo” Radley, which highlights a theme
of tolerance2. Atticus and the case of Tom Robinson, which
highlights the theme of injustice
1930s Times hard for all during the Great Depression 25% of population was unemployed at the worst
part Scottsboro Boys Trial 1931-1937 (Lee was four
when this began) Jim Crow Laws:
Black curfew Segregated public areas Mixed relationships/marriages illegal Juries of all white men Laws inconsistently enforced Black man accused of assaulting white woman would
be presumed guilty, not innocent
Truman Capote- “Dill” Lee and Capote became friends in
kindergarten and were next door neighbors Her father gave them an old typewriter which
they used to write their own stories In third grade he moved to New York City to
live with his mother and stepfather but returned to Alabama in the summer
Mockingbirds “but remember it’s a sin to kill a
mockingbird” Atticus Mockingbirds mimic other birds and insects
usually at a fast rate, they can remember up to 200 songs
Main purpose is to make music Associated with what is innocent and
harmless In the novel, killing a mockingbird is
“associated with the sinful, pointless and cruel”
Small town life The story is set in a small, Southern town in
the years following the Stock Market Crash of 1929. While most Southern, small towns were peaceful during this time, the people who lived there were often very poor and had little in the way of luxuries. Also, that peace was often kept at the expense of certain groups of people in the communities: the very poor and African-Americans
Jim Crow laws were segregating white and black, sometimes violently. Racial prejudice and sometimes hatred were a part of everyone’s lives.
Knightdale Our town was a very small town in the
Depression, populated mostly by farmers with most of the town centered in what are now Main St. and First Avenue.
Other views of Knightdale from the early 20th century
First fire truck
Downtown fire
Picking beans outside of town
The original Knightdale High School
Train depot
First town well
Creating six-year-old you Color your hair and clothes to look like you would
have looked at 6. Create a t-shirt that will explain who your
hero/favorite person was: add a slogan, name, design Cut out your “body” and recycle the extra paper Use the magazines to find your favorite food. Cut it
out and glue it in your right hand Draw or cut out a representation of your biggest fear
and glue that in your left hand Glue the body to a piece of paper which was your
favorite color at 6 On an index card write “I hope…” filling in your hope
for the future. Glue the index card to your paper Put your name at the bottom
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