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

Discuss how the historical, political and social setting of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird contributes to the fears that are present in Maycomb County.Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear butfear itself. (Sc turn out Finch, Chapter 1, To Kill a Mockingbird).To Kill A Mockingbird is set in a small town in Maycomb County,Alabama, in the 1930s, which was a dark period in time for America asit had been hit by the Depression. Up until 1929, America had beendoing very well, becoming a much richer country. However in 1929 whenstocks had soared to an all time high, in September they plummeted.This day in history is know as Black Thursday and is remembered asthe Wall Street Crash of 29. The crash hit peoples interests hardand Americans all over lost a plug of money. Banks had to spend all ofthe money they had on regaining the economy, and agricultural needswere ignored, and didnt seem as important as other things likeindustry. Landowners had let out land to farmers to grow crops in, andwhen the Wall Street Crash hit them, they wanted to regain their land,as it was all they had. Therefore, the crash hit farmers the most andthe Deep mho was hit very badly because so many people were farmersby trade.There were many black people in the South of America, especiallyAlabama, and in that location was great racial hatred between them and the whitecommunities. The Civil War from 1861-1865 between the North of Americawho wanted the abolition of slavery, and the South who wanted to alimentationslavery resulted in victory by the North, and slavery was laterabolished. The South had lost its pride, and this was the reason forthe racial hatred. Black people were thought to be outclassed to whitepeople and in the 1960s when the novel was written, black communitieswere rioting and causing disturbances to get across the point thatthey were not inferior to white people. afterward Abolition Black peoplewere terrorised by the Ku Klux Klan, who woul d burn them, rape thewomen, and torture 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 were empower to the same rights as white people, however they were stillostracised by white people because of their colour.