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A Read the material describing the place, time setting, and events that influenced the novel To Kill a Mockingbird and complete the summary below using the words from the box. dictatorship illusion inequality Maycomb Maryland Pre- Reading The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set against the background of the 1930s in the fictional town of (1) , Alabama. It explores social (2) and racial discrimination in the American South. Rosa Parks’ arrest and the resulting Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) The novel is set during “the Great Depression,” a period starting in 1929 that was marked by a big drop in the economy of the United States. This caused a significant increase in unemployment, poverty, social unrest and inequality. Time: 1935 -1939 P l ace: Maycomb in A l abama, U.S.A. Events that inf l uenced the nove l 68 I LESSON 3 Novel