To Kill a Mockingbird

why must Atticus leave for two weeks

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Atticus has to leave for two weeks for an emergency session with the state legislature. It is a special session but I can't recall it being related to the economy in the text. The Great Depression began in 1929 so it might have something to do with that.

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