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Harper lee. Born in monroeville, alabama april 28th 1926. In 1959 she finished the manuscript her pulitzer prize winner and best seller to kill mocking bird (1960). When harper lee was in high school she really liked english lit. When she graduated (1944) She went to an all female college (huntingdon College) She transfered to the university of alabama at tuscaloosa, she contribued to schools news paper and humor magazine when she was in her junior year. Then she was accepted into the the law's degree while being under grates.

But when she was 23 in 1949 she arrived in new york city, but she struggled for 7 year's, she worked as a ticket agent for eastren airlines and for the british over sea air corps. In the 1956, the browns (who she became friends with because of Truman capote) gave lee an imprise christmas present to support her for a year so she could write all year! She quit her job and devoted her self to her to craft. The browns also helped her find an agent. "Maurice Crain'. He was able to get the publishing firm and intrested in her first novel, which was first tilted. "go set a whatman" then atticus. And then her best selling novel "to kill a mockingbird."

Historial Context. Jim Crow is often used to describe the segration law's and the rules and the customs which a rose after recontruction that ended in 1877 and continued threw mid 1960. The name became associated with the "black codes" that away many of the right's which have been granted to black threw the 13th,14th,15th ammenment's. It was at the point that everything was labeled "colored" and "whites". For the bathrooms, water fountain's. They had sign's that only hiring "whites only.

The great depression 1929-early 1940's. The united states was thrown into despair on black tuesday october 29th 1929. The price got higher with no hope of recovery, panic struck! Masses and masses of people tried selling their stalk market so they could at least some money. But this was like the begging yet since the bank's invested large amount's of their client's savings in the stock market, these bank's were forced to close.

Adolph hitler and the holocaust. In 1920 hitler joined the national socialist german work party known as the nazi. He was a monster and a man of destruction! some of this took place january 30th 1933. When most jew's thought they were going to be killed, alot of them were worked to death but 65 million jew were killed. Hitler was the Head of State, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and guiding spirt, or //fuher//, of Germany's Third Reich from 1933 to 1945.

Civil Right's movement, 1954-1963. Reffer's to the movement in the united states. Out lawing racial discrimanation against the american's and destroying voting right's to them. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonvolient protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to these situations that highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans.

Character trait's. Jem- short for Jermey & is the speaker's brother. Atticus-Father of spreaker and jem. He's a lawyer. Pretty wealthy he pay's for his brother's school. Simon-Lives in the south really from england he's a finch as well. Calpurina- Their cook (family cook) mother figure disaplen of the house. She has been there since jem was born & she;s black. Dill-he's 7 lives next door was from meridian mississippi didn't have a dad. (like skout and jem didn't have a mom.) Skout-Speaker 6 year's old. (she's a girl but she's a tom boy and her real name is jean louise.) Boo Raley-Rumor that he is crazy, He stabbed his dad in the leg with a pair of sissor's and just wiped the blood on his jean's. Miss Cardine- Skout's teacher. They had a baby sitter (mrs.dubose) but she was a mean lady, but attics still made them go to her house she was sick but on her medicine but each day she set her alarm later and later, till the day she passed away. But the goal was for her to die with not being addicted to her pill's when she dies. They were licked 100 years before death! -imagery.

Skout and jem had a babysitter Mrs. Dubose she wasn’t the nicest person ever but she was old and cranky, she took medicine but she started setting her clock to remind her to take them later and later because when she dies she doesn’t want to be addicted to them, she then later died. Then Atticus’s sister Alexandra stay’s there with them for a while, while the trail get’s closer and closer. But she tells Atticus that Skout need’s to start being more of a girl dressing like a girl and not a tomboy, but Atticus wants his kids to grow up with character and not racism towards the black’s and skout. But dill use to come over every summer but his mom remarried and they moved so Dill wasn’t there anymore until one night shout was ready for bed and she stepped on something and she couldn’t see any thing cause it was dark and she couldn’t turn on the light because then it would wake Atticus up then she had jem go look then they found out that it was dill. And jem kind of broke the rules of being a kid cause he did the mature thing and told his dad because that was Dill parents wont be as worried then dill explained to Atticus and they figured something out and Dill moved in with them. The days get closer to the trail. Then when the trail came skout and jem was there with out Atticus knowing it, but then Calaprina came in and let Atticus know that they were not at home and then some one pointed them out and they were sitting in the black part and no one else never said anything. Then there was a break and Jeremy and Skout had to leave and eat but they wanted to come back but calprina didn’t like that fact the they were so young listening to what was going on but Atticus said they could come back after they are done eating of they are still there cause it might be done for the day, The trail took place of some one getting raped but when you would hear what I happened it’s hard to believe from how some of it was then when and how bob acted it seemed like it though, She asked bob ti help her move something that here dad dropped off and then she’d pay him and she went into the house to get him a nickel and next thing she know that he was on top of her, but when bob showed up it looked as if there was a fight all the thing’s were out of place. But she only started too scream when her dad seen what was going on, but Atticus wanted too know why no one got a doctor? They all said that they don’t know and that right there proves as if you know nothing really was as serious as they were saying. But there were kids playing down at the lake. Why didn’t she scream for help so they could go get help? But in chapter 27 bob’s reactions get stronger and rude he spit in Atticus’s face He even ended up following Helen home. But now it’s towards the end of the story and Harper lee is using flash backs to make us think about the beginning of the book when jem broke his arm. But then Bob went after the skout and jem. (Because he was trying to get revenge on Atticus for putting his business and al his flaws out so everyone would know.) But skout had her costume on still and she was a ham for the school play and if it want for the little wires on there she would have probably gotten hurt too. But now Mr. Tate and Atticus were talking and the doctor came over and had to put jem to sleep cause he would have flipped and wouldn’t let anyone touch him at all. So when the doctor put him to sleep and was done looking at him boo raley wanted to see him. So after he seen him he asked skout to walk him home. She made it look as if he were walking her across the street cause she didn’t want people too see that he is outside walking her. But before she walked him home, atticus wanted to sit out side cause he didn’t want bee raley near the light cause he always in the dark and was sick so skout sat him out side near her.