Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird (2010)
“Meyer In the first paragraph of his March 1933 inaugural address to Congress, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States, was frank and bold in his assertion that the only thing Americans had to fear was fear itself.1 Assessing the common difficulties faced by citizens in the deep throes of the Great Depression, FDR sought to reassure his fellow countrymen and -women that failure was not imminent and that the key to a return to success—both financial and emotion...al—was to rely on interdependence: being a good neighbor who respects one’s self and because she does so, respects the rights of others; a neighbor who respects his obligation and respects the sanctity of his agreement in and with a world of neighbors.
Some twenty-seven years later, Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird, a book now celebrating its fifty-year anniversary. Whether ironically or intentionally, Lee set the story in 1933, the same year that Roosevelt delivered the speech—a time that despite Roosevelt’s protestations to the contrary, was rife with various fears, not the least of which were the economic conditions that brought the failure of banks and businesses and that also foreshadowed the foreclosures of homes and loss of property.MoreLess
Some twenty-seven years later, Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird, a book now celebrating its fifty-year anniversary. Whether ironically or intentionally, Lee set the story in 1933, the same year that Roosevelt delivered the speech—a time that despite Roosevelt’s protestations to the contrary, was rife with various fears, not the least of which were the economic conditions that brought the failure of banks and businesses and that also foreshadowed the foreclosures of homes and loss of property.MoreLess
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