YEAR 11 ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD At the time in which To Kill A Mockingbird is set, the whole world and especially America, was suffering from the Great Depression. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 had left the richest of people broke- and the poorest of people with even less than they had before. Throughout the whole book poverty is one of the most dominant themes. In To Kill A Mockingbird, people like the Cunninghams …showed first 75 words of 733 total…

…showed last 75 words of 733 total…people to teach them how not to act. Even though they had been deprived of a maternal figure, their substitute mother Calpurnia does a good job of doing what any other mother would do. The Finch children were raised with a level understanding of life in a poverty-stricken era. They were aware of the conflict between races and classes, and when it hit home- was astonished to find life could be so cruel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**