Influences of Harper Lee- The Great Depression.

Stock Market crash was thought to have caused the depression when it was infact due to the expensive brands and products. And in order for people to afford then the accumulated a large amount of debt and as a result the banks where owned money.

There was mass unemployment especially in the lower classed and thousands had to take to the roads in order to find work. Protests took place out side government buildings. Small makeshift towns where built called Hovervills and Bread lines where huge. The lack of money left many people desperately poor.

One of the most iconic images of the depression. It depicts a mother with here three young children. Who looks like she is waiting for a Husband or another family member to return from the road after seeking work.  There cloth and hair look dirty and torn.

 A Hoovervill,  perhaps deliberately named so after the present of the time Herbert Hover?