To Kill a Mocking Bird

Chapter 1
1. A.) “During his first five years in Maycomb, Atticus practiced economy more than anything, for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother’s education. John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine…He liked Maycomb, he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch’s industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.” Page 5.
B.) “Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” Page 6.
C.) “We lived on the main residential street in town – Atticus, Jem and I, plus Calpurnia our cook” Page 6. “According to neighbourhood legend, when the younger Radley boy was in his teens he became acquainted with some of the Cumminghams from Old Sarum, an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the northern part of the county, and formed the nearest thing to a gang ever seen in Maycomb.” Page 10.
D.) “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But was a time of vague optimism for some of the people.” Page 5-6.
2.) The story begins in the 1930s, during summer, after the Great Depression hit Alabama. The quote “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with” on page 6 shows the setting and the way of life that came with the hit of the Great Depression.
3.) The narrative voice in the story is coming from Scout, she seems like a young and quite intelligent child. The viewpoint is coming from her and how she is experiencing everything around her. The way she deciphers things makes her seem quite intelligent.
4.) So far we know that the Radley place is feared by the rest of the town. It mentioned that Boo Radley was in serious trouble before and ever since that incident he has never came out of the house but it was believed that Boo comes out of his house in the middle of the night. The children are fascinated by Boo because they see him as a mysterious person and they do not know the complete story or truth about him and about the entire incident that had happened before. Since they did not know everything they would use their imagination and play games about the whole situation for entertainment.