The setting of the story, the deep south during the Great Depression, is very important to the story. Race relations hadn't changed a great deal from the 1930's to the late 1950's when Harper Lee wrote the novel, so she could write about a past time from a view into her current time. Blacks in the south were segregated as many southerners, like many people, did things the way their parents and grandparents did them and thought the way their parents and grandparents thought. In the 1930's, the Civil War was 70 years old, but the grandparents of adults during 1930's would have probably had a clear memory of it. People didn't travel much in the 1930's due to lack of money and lack of opportunity. People were much more provincial then than they are now because, in part, we have mass media and easy access to travel. That provincialism helped maintain the views of southerners from the Civil War through the 1930's and beyond. All of that information makes it easier to understand why some of the characters in the story acted the way they did, particularly the uneducated ones. The jury in the Tom Robinson trial was made up mostly of farmers who would have had a very limited education, so their prejudices ran deep. That doesn't excuse what they did, but it does help explain it. If the story had been set in a more modern time after the Civil Rights movement, there would have been less chance of a guilty verdict, no matter where the story was set. Also important to the story's setting is the fact that the story does take place in the rural south. These people were greatly and negatively affected by the Great Depression. Many of the small farmers, like the Cunninghams, couldn't make ends meet with what was grown on their farms. They were angry and bitter and sometimes that anger came out at any convenient source such as when the group of farmers planned to lynch Tom at the jail. The setting was essential to the story so that the reader could see how ignorance bred prejudice and enlightenment banished it.
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Charlie has discovered that his own intelligence will deteriorate just as quickly as Algernon’s.
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confidence
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it is about being proud of yourself and being comfortable in your own skin. The low-self confidence is never going to end, it will come in every generation. But Dream , must learn to be proud of being a black person.
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Please check my work. This all seems right to me, but I'd check it anyways. I really hope this helps! I put the words in quotes to find them easier.
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My uncle told me he had a surprise! It will be
revealed "as soon as" 1 pm.
"Once" I heard about the surprise, I jumped out of bed and got ready for the day.
"Since" I was busy getting ready, I tried to keep guessing what the surprise could be!
We immediately got into the car so we could
arrive at the surprise on time.
We left to drive to the surprise "even though"
we were all packed into the car.
I keep trying to make guesses of what the surprize could be "till" we arrived. Just as we pullout into a large parking lot, I saw a big train! I asked my uncle if we were going on a train ride "Though" he was parking his car "Whereas" he could say anything else. I knew that the surprise was a nice in a cool train. I heard a conductor blow his whistle and holler. "All aboard!" We ran to make sure we hopped onto the train
before it left "Although" we did not have running shoes on. We had a wonderful time and meet many fun people.
