Animal farm & To Kill a mockingbird contexts

Animal Farm Contexts.

• Napoleon and Snowball = Stalin & Trotsky
• Trotsky was popular, famous for passionate speeches
• 1924 Stalin made an alliance against Trotsky
• Trotsky expelled from Russia in 1936
• Trotsky fled to Mexico, assassinated 1940.
• Trotsky became a common enemy
• If people mentioned trotsky's name they were seen as a traitor.

To Kill A Mockingbird contexts.

• Book is set in 1930s. Was written in 1960's
• Scottsbro case = what Tom Robinsons case based on.
• The Great Depression
• KKK worked as a gang= the lynch mob before trial
• Black people blamed for the depression= maycombs view
• The cunninghams have nothing because of the depression
• Unequal rights for women, feminists seen as unnatural = maycomb women.
• Black people couldnt marry white people= dolphus raymond.