How Does Harper Lee Present The Black Community In 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?

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How Does Harper Lee Present The Black Community In ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’?

Title: To Kill A Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee

Written: Late 1950’s

Community is an area where people live together and interact with each other.

In ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ there are two different communities, a black community and a white community. The white community is the larger and stronger community (in terms of power). The white community are very racist towards the black community and try not to mix with the black people of the town. The black people live in a smaller part of the town, away from the white people.

Harper Lee has set the novel in Alabama, America in a small fictional town called ‘Maycomb’. The story was set in the 1930’s (around the time of the great depression). This was a good time to set the story because the farmers were in financial difficulty and the black people in America had no say in what went on in the country. Although the story was set around the time of the great depression it was actually written about 20 years after that had happened. This was because Harper Lee wanted to show how unfairly the black people were treated at this particular time.

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In this story I think Harper Lee has made the black community socially stronger. They stick together through a lot and help each other out. You can see this a lot when it comes to the time of Tom Robinson’s trial. Not only do you see the way people react towards the black community but the way the white community discriminate towards a white man (Atticus Finch) who is for Tom Robinson’s lawyer during the case. The black people were made to sit upstairs in the court away from the white people. This was because the white people didn’t want ...

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