What Is Southern Life Like In The 1930's

Throughout the 1930’s many people in the United States had to suffer though a Great Depression that caused many Americans to lose many things, starting from their jobs to even their own pride in themselves. How ever this was different for the people who lived in the south, the southern people were not only just affected by the Great Depression they were also affected by heavy racism and strongly enforced Jim Crow laws. With the enforced Jim Crow laws, these laws heavily restricted the life of a colored person, causing them to have restrictions to their daily lives. On the other hand the laws did not only affect just the lives of a colored person, the laws also affected even the people who are suppose to benefit from the laws, the white people. For example some of the white people who were against the Jim Crow laws and were for racial equality were even lynched by their own race. But, to truly understand what life was really like for southern people in the 1930’s, the book To Kill A Mockingbird created by author Harper Lee, informs her readers through the plot, character development and tone of the story to show her readers what southern life in the 1930’s was really like. To understand how the Great Depression and also racism affected
Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird the tone of the story constantly fluctuate as certain events transpire, how ever key points in the book drastically change in tone due to racism and the Great Depression being in the moment. When the book’s narrator Scout Finch first introduced us the current mood of Maycomb and it’s citizens, she first stated that “Maycomb was an old town… there was no hurry cause there was no where to go, there was nothing to buy and no money to buy with”(Harper Lee 1939 pg