First, this photograph is important because this shows the unemployed going to the breadlines to wait to get food for themselves and their family. This long line could take forever to reach to the front because there was so many unemployed that couldn't pay their rent or mortgages at all. These lines were men that experienced waiting in line recall which the personal shame for asking a handout would show the areas where they couldn't care for oneself or even provide for others. These breadlines would be handing out foods by charities, missions, and churches to feed others. The sorrow faces of those who were in line show that the Great Depression was a huge hit for them if they had to wait in line for food. This photograph can show the desperation of the men who had to wait in the breadlines for food since they had no food to eat. Second, I know that this is from a reliable source because it’s from a eduation.com source. Provides a website …show more content…
During the book the breadlines got out of control in Alabama, the state legislature called a state of emergency, and had Atticus leave Scout and Jem. These breadlines in the book To Kill a Mockingbird represent the lines that supplied food to feed the poor people, mainly consisting of bread and were used through the book around the Depression. The Great Depression showed many different ways throughout the book, the author quotes, “The Governor was eager to scrape a few barnacles off the ship of state; there were sit-down strikes in Birmingham; bread lines in the cities grew longer, people in the country grew poorer” (Lee 132). According to this quote, this is telling the reader about what the Great Depression was like for the people around this time when the bread lines were around. These bread lines are very important to the book To Kill a Mockingbird and shows the many ways that people could survive with