Discuss how the historical, political and social setting of Harper Lees :: English Literature

Discuss how the historical, political and social scene of Harper Lees novel To fling off a Mockingbird contributes to the fears that are constitute in Maycomb County.Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear butfear itself. (Scout Finch, Chapter 1, To Kill a Mockingbird).To Kill A Mockingbird is set in a petite town in Maycomb County,Alabama, in the 1930s, which was a dark period in time for the States asit had been urinate by the Depression. Up until 1929, the States had beendoing very well, becoming a much richer country. However in 1929 whenstocks had soared to an each time high, in September they plummeted.This day in history is know as Black Thursday and is remembered asthe Wall Street calve of 29. The crash hit lots interests hardand Americans all over lost a lot of money. Banks had to spend all ofthe money they had on regaining the economy, and bucolic needswere ignored, and didnt seem as important as other things standardisedindustry. Landown ers had let out land to farmers to grow crops in, andwhen the Wall Street flash hit them, they wanted to regain their land,as it was all they had. Therefore, the crash hit farmers the most andthe Deep South was hit very badly because so many people were farmersby trade.There were many calamitous people in the South of America, especiallyAlabama, and there was great racial offense between them and the lividcommunities. The Civil War from 1861-1865 between the North of Americawho wanted the abolition of slavery, and the South who wanted to keepslavery resulted in victory by the North, and slavery was laterabolished. The South had lost its pride, and this was the drive forthe racial annoyance. Black people were thought to be inferior to lily-whitepeople and in the 1960s when the novel was written, black communitieswere rioting and cause disturbances to get across the point thatthey were not inferior to white people. by and by Abolition Black peoplewere terrorised by the Ku Klu x Klan, who would burn them, rape thewomen, and harassment the children and the reader is shown an example ofthis in Chapter 15 where a group of white people, go to the countyjail to terrorise Tom Robinson.Maybe this hatred for the Negroes wasnt hatred after all, but broughtabout by fear. As slavery had been abolished, black people wereentitled to the same rights as white people, however they were remedyostracised by white people because of their colour.