Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird And A Part Of The Sky

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In the excerpts from the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the memoir, A Part of the Sky by Robert Peck, Walter Cunningham and Robert Peck come from similar backgrounds, and exhibit similar characteristics. Not only are their situations unusually alike, both living in poverty due to the great depression, but they also handle the situation in somewhat like ways.
Perhaps the most evident similarity is that both Walter Cunningham and Robert Peck are living and working on farms during the Great Depression. Walter is shown to have hookworms, and “People caught hookworms going barefooted in barnyards and hog wallows,” (line 3 TKAM) while Peck describes his somewhat destitute experience on his family's farm in line 2 and 3 of APOTS. It is know that the Great Depression severely affected farmers, which somewhat explains the reason that their living conditions are so atrocious. …show more content…

It can be inferred, even by someone with very limited information of to Kill a Mockingbird, the Walter can’t attend school- someone who owns no shoes, has hookworms, doesn’t have proper hygiene, and works on his family’s farm is very obviously not going to be able to go to school for longer than a few weeks. Robert Peck is told by the town clerk that “You’ll [Peck] have to register and attend school” (line 20 APOTS). Both of them not being able to attend school is clearly from living in poverty- if they were not quite as poor as they are, then they would have had to attend school for more than a few

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