Maycomb Bad Town

Maycomb is a miserable town to live in. Using the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we get to see maycomb through the eyes of the protagonist Scout, learning more about the town itself and the people inhabiting it. Maycomb is a bad place to live because of how the towns folk won’t accept one another for being different, how dangerous Maycomb is and how townsfolk discriminate one another. To start of, Maycomb is not a good place to live because of how non-accepting the town is. One example of how non-accepting the town is when Cecil Jacobs makes fun of Scout because Atticus is “defending niggers”(Lee,74). This is an example of how non-accepting Maycomb is because it shows that Cecil thinks it is wrong to help a negro and flat out make
In addition another fact in the novel that proves Maycomb is a dangerous town to live in is when during the mad dog incident Calpurnia calls Atticus saying “I swear to God there’s a mad dog down the street a piece”(Lee,93) and Heck Tate pressures Atticus to shoot at Tim Johnson instead saying that he would “feel mighty comfortable if you did it now”(Lee,96). This is prove of just how dangerous Maycomb is because they let a rabid dog loose into the residential district putting a lot of civilians in danger, it would not have happened if they had more than one sheriff and even the sheriff is somewhat useless, instead of firing the gun and ending the dog himself Heck ask a civilian to do his job for him putting him in danger if he missed. The final statement in the book To Kill a Mockingbird that shows that Maycomb is a dangerous town is when right before the trial a mob of people ask Atticus who is guarding Tom Robinson’s cell to “get aside from the door”(Lee,151). This is evidence that shows Maycomb is a dangerous town because even when Tom is in a cell he still get threatened to be lynched by the mob who had an excuse too, if it was not for Scout Tom Robinson might have been killed that day without be put on trial
This is an example of discrimination because it shows that the Ewells are treated differently, they are almost treated as worse as the negroes during those times and no one really wanted anything to do with them and that the town basically lets them do what they want. Lastly, the final part in the novel that proves that Maycomb contains discrimination is when Jem and Scout go to Cal’s church and Lula complains to her asking “why you bringin’ white chillun to nigger church”(Lee,119) . This is a superb point that proves that Maycomb has discrimination because she is discriminating against Jem and Scout just because they are white and are going to a black church says that it is wrong for white people to go to a black church and vice versa, Lula also states that they have their own church to go to and that they should not be allowed to mix this helps prove the point that Maycomb contains discrimination. Overall Maycomb is a atrocious town because of discrimination. In summary Maycomb is a horrible town to live in due to how non-accepting, dangerous and how people living in Maycomb discriminate one another for the littlest things. Maycomb is not a town where people should stay or