amount of nourishment, the roots will wither and the tree will not grow into the majestic life form that it could have been. This idea of the importance of childhood and its effect on people is illustrated in Harper Lee’s novel: To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird follows the lives of the Finch family, especially the children, and their lives in a small Alabama town in the 1930s. This small southern town has been hit hard by the Great Depression, yet the Finch family is one of the more affluent
Both To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are coming of age novels, set in the deep south of America, in the 1930s and 1830-40s respectively. These eras were times when racism was a given, and it was rare to find someone who wasn't intensely prejudiced. The novels are both bildungsromans, overseeing the emotional and, in Scout's case, literal growth of the young protagonists as they gain experience in their respective societies. The events of To
A third similarity between the lives of Scout and Harper Lee is their cities and settings. Lee lived in Monroeville, Alabama while Scout lived in Maycomb, Alabama. During the 1930s, Monroeville was presented with cases of African American men supposedly committing violent acts against whites. The city’s population always decided to convict the African American men and execute them. The video clip “Setting: A Portrait of a Southern Town in the 1930s” summarizes the conditions Monroeville went through
challenges and trials through out the quest, and lastly a real reason to go there. As for the movie “Earth to Echo” the story line is an example of a quest. In the movie there are four young questers, Tuck, Munch, Alex, and Emma. As two of the boys were being dragged out of their homes due to construction work, they discovered strange phone signals. When the group of friends had to dig deep into the phone mystery, they discovered a map to several locations.