Essay To Kill a Mockingbird

We were given 4 Samples. I chose sample 2, that said, "What impact does setting have on your understanding of the central ideas or themes presented in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?" I began with a short introduction about the novel and its main idea, the essay had to be based on information and knowledge of the Part 1 of the novel. I choose to use as a Thesis "The issues that occurred on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird setting affect the way we understand or comprehend this novel." I continued by explaining 3 of the main issues of 1930s. The first one was the Great Depression, I mentioned how this affected the country and its people. As a second issue I mentioned the Dust Bowl, who it affected and why did this happen. As a last issue i mentioned the black community and racism issue during this time, and how it affected both white and black people. I developed each argument with one of the issues, making a relation to the book and quoting important parts were we could see the issues. I finally concluded that the issues that were presented in Maycomb during the 1930s change the way we understand the novel. If we would not have knowledge of the crisis or the dust bowl, or even having no knowledge of how racism was during these times, we would find the book written with a very weird ideas.