(O’Connor 5-6)

_{(Goldfield par. 5)}

_{The Great Depression was a catastrophic event in history, inflation rose dramatically and people were dying. White farm owners were pushing people off their land because they didn’t have the money to pay them, and unemployment skyrocketed. People weren’t able to pay their bills or even pay for food for themselves and their families.}

_(Goldfield)

_{The fact that white people didn’t want to be connected to colored people in that way shows how deep racism really went. The mixed couples were ostracized and were shown as a wrongdoing to society. When really, white and colored people were the same, they were the same from their personalities to their dreams. Maybe their accomplishments were different but they wanted similar things to each other. They wanted to protect their rights but white people didn’t want them intruding on the rights they thought were only for themselves.}

_(Ryan)

_{They had a significant role in this time period. They helped with the unemployment surge by being another provider for their families. They helped with cleaning as well as having a job to help their families survive. They wouldn’t survive if the man of the house was the only one working.}

^{Bulwark— A Defensive Wall}

^(Ryan)

^{Traditional gender norms were extremely important to many people, especially when the man could make all the money and live comfortably. With communism though gender norms weren’t as accepted, everyone was supposed to be equal and the woman was supposed to work as well and the man to support their children. This disgruntled many people that just wanted to stay the same.}

_{(Lee 231)}

_{This refers to the violence colored people faced. The physical and mental trauma that white people placed onto them. White people despised colored people just because they thought they were different but they weren’t only on the outside. Their ideals and way of life were only slightly different and how they acted was only because of racism.}

_{(Lee 119)}

_{Mockingbirds were a value in to kill a mockingbird. It’s an insinuation to other things that just make us happy, and instead of killing it or killing its spirit, we should just sit and enjoy. Enjoy the life given to us instead of destroying things that were never supposed to be destroyed.}

_{(Lee 205)}

_{White people thought they could treat colored people any way they wanted, just because they thought colored people didn’t have feelings. They thought colored people were beneath them just because of their skin color, but never stopped to think that colored people are the same as them, just different on the outside.}

_{(Lee 230)}

_{This shows that some people were racist but others didn’t align with those ideals.some thought people were just people, no one was above others because of the way they were born or what their skin color was.}

_{(Hurston 26)}

_{Her husband slowly stopped showing interest in her when it became less exiting for him. He wanted her when it was fun and exhilarating but when it turned into the boring concept of marriage he lost interest. He thought she would just be there and he didn’t need to keep up the work to keep her interested in him.}

_{(Hurston 50)}

_{The town was scared of him, the things he would do if they ever even thought about standing up to him. They all bowed down to him but he was only the mayor and had all this power because of the people bowing to him. He came to the town with big ideas and dreams to be mayor, but Jody liked the power and that sometimes got to his head and made bad decisions, that’s why the town neither liked nor disliked him as a mayor.}

_{(Hurston 55)}

_{Women were endlessly treated as objects. Jody continuously showed that he could control Janie, what she wore, what she said, how she acted, was all controlled by Jody. She didn’t like the head rag, it was uncomfortable and covered her long hair that she was so proud of, but Jody didn’t care. He was so jealous of other men staring that he didn’t think of her feelings.}

_{(Hurston 59)}

_{This quote shows the eccentric nature in which people as a whole entertained themselves. 5hey would make up stories and songs to make it seem like everything was okay and they weren’t trying harder than others just to be more equal to white people. The mule is a funny story that states their nature of being united as a community, they all shared in this story and didn’t fight about how it was clearly made up.}

_{(Hurston 91)}

_{The thought that women were always so easy to take advantage of was from the endless control of men. They would control women until they had no say anymore, they didn’t want to speak up because they would have consequences. They were so fearful that they were turned into someone that could easily be taken advantage of.}

_{(Hurston 89)}

_{This is a show of her feelings of not being controlled anymore. Just as Jody left her, she left the head rags that he left behind, a symbol of his controlling behavior all the way until the end. She was finally free from his control, that was the message she was sending.}

_{('Folklore in Literature')}

_{(Avery 41)}

_{(Avery 13)}