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Okay ap english learners and next one is fine passage

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Here we go The author mentions jim crow laws and

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length twenty three years and rosa parks chiefly Teo do

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what All right let's go down in the line twenty

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three and kind of skim through about twenty seven there

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on hell of criminal andrea lawyer at that time in

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american history people of different races were not equally protected

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under the law in the south jim crow laws mandated

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segregation all public facilities seven six twenty sixty five In

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their first sanction discrimination is black people Throughout lee's childhood

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rosa parks did not refuse give receiving the bus until

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harper lee It was nearly thirty Alright this passage is

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geared to show the reader that lead didn't pull the

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idea of mockingbird from thin air It is of course

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fiction but it's not created in some fantasy universe with

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marvel characters It's based on real life both her own

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personal experiences in a real american history jim crow in

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rosa parks or mentioned so that we have a solid

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historical context for lee's life and for her novel well

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the passage also tells us a bit about the history

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of the south Simple Yeah get rid of deep and

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civil rights movement Get rid of a and while e

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but its main purpose is to show how mockingbird was

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written in response to american historical events Though the author

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does discuss potential inspiration for character tom robinson's trial it

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uses This is an example To support her main point

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This makes mockingbird slightly more likely to be on the

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curriculum than say anything recently adapted into blockbuster movies featuring

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vampires or wizards or dead presidents So the answer here

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is beat it ground Our understanding of lee's life in 00:01:35.214 --> [endTime] contemporary american history

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