Context of To Kill A Mockingbird: Questions on Strange Fruit I WIL MARK U BRAINIEST AND GIVE U 80 POINTS IF U GET THEM RIGHT BUT IF U ANSWER NOT PROPERLY THEN I WILL REPORT U AND U WILL GET BANNED..

1.Why were most lynching victims hung from trees? Would they have died this way had they been convicted of a crime in a court of law?.

2.What kinds of fruit do trees usually bear?.

3.How do we know from the lyrics that the "strange" fruit here means the bodies of lynching victims?.

4.Why is it that Southern trees bear the "strange fruit"?.

5.What contrast is made between the "gallant South" and the South which bears strange fruit? What is ironic about this contrast?.

6.Meeropol almost called the poem “Bitter Fruit” but then changed it. What are the connotations of the words ‘bitter’ and ‘strange’ and why do you think he changed it?.

7.Why do you think the word "lynching" never appears in the song?..

8.Do you think the song is more powerful, or less powerful, because its topic [lynching] is implied instead of stated?.

1. they were easier to do. it would of not happened if it was in the court of law. they would more than likely get sentenced to jail.

2.almonds, Japanese plums, apricots, peaches, sweet cherries, pears, European plums, sour cherries, and apples.

3.The "strange fruit" of the poem's title refers to these lynching victims, the gruesome ... in which black victims' bodies are presented as the “strange fruit”

4. they bear the stnge fruit because that is where most blacked lived and most racism happened.

5.This is an ironic description, heavy with sarcasm and yet revealing of the cultural ... meant to be a highly ironic criticism of the gap between the South's perception of its ... The men, dangling from the trees where they were hung, are the "strange fruit. ... He is contrasting this idealized view of the South with the reality in which ...

6. The fastest way to understand the poem's meaning, themes, form, rhyme ... Racism is not just hateful, then, but totally hypocritical and antithetical to the South's ... But it's already signaled that something is off here—this fruit is strange. ... in 1937 under Meeropol's pseudonym, Lewis Allan, and was originally called "Bitter Fruit.

7. This lesson focuses on Billie Holiday's signature song, Strange Fruit, a protest song Lewis .

Explanation:

i guess you are missing the idea that has to be supported, am i right?