How is 'The New Deal' program introduced by Franklin Roosevelt related to 'To kill a mockingbird'?

The 'New Deal' was an attempt, by using public money to finance useful projects (roads, irrigation etc.) to restart the economy after the depression. The idea was that the projects would in themselves be economically valuable, and that the wages of the workers would also be spent to stimulate the local economies. It has not much to do with the central theme of the novel; it is used for 'local colour' as part of the background of general financial hardship.

Here and there it is used to make a specific point: for instance that Robert Ewell is bone idle - he was, remember, one of the very few to be sacked from work on one of the renewal projects for laziness. This tells us something about Ewell, and also about the way the projects did (or rather didn't) work. The first wave (the economic reforms) of New Deal policies was in part overturned by a judgment of the Supreme Court; the second wave (starting 1935) which was social engineering, aimed at reforming trades union and labour law ( ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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