November 14‚ 2012 People’s Believes in Maycomb In the novel by Harper Lee‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ she gives a detailed insight into human nature and its consequences. She focuses on a specific time period‚ the 1930’s. In the novel‚ she makes me feel the cruel reality of that time period. However‚ it also gave me a bright perspective of how they kept their spirits alive. Through Harper Lee’s novel‚ she showed us the power of human will to survive in such a segregated time period. As I was reading
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To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County‚ an imaginary district in southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s‚ the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States. For parts of the deep South like Maycomb County‚ the Depression meant only that the bad times that had been going on for decades got a little bit worse. These rural areas had long been poor and undeveloped. Black people worked for low wages in the fields. White farmers were more
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in the 1930’s‚ in a small Alabama town called Maycomb. The story is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch (known as Scout). Scout lives with her father and her brother Jeremy Finch (known as Jem). Scout is having to grow up with the same racism that effects her father’s‚ Atticus Finch‚ lawsuit. The reason for the despicable attitude towards the Finchs’ is that Atticus defended Tom Robinson‚ a black person. Tom was charged with raping a poor white girl
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee contains few aspects about Maycomb black community. This links very well with one of the most important theme of the novel‚ racism. Harper Lee describe black community as poor‚ uneducated and unfairly treated people‚ but in the end Harper Lee tells us that black people are just like anyone else in Maycomb and they deserve to be treated equally. To begin‚ Harper Lee describes black community as extremely poor‚ uneducated group of people. Harper
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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
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Maycomb Sexual Assualt Trial Tom Robinson Found Guilty for Rape November 22‚ 1936 Yesterday at around 11pm‚ Tom Robinson who had been accused by Bob Ewell of raping his daughter‚ Mayella Ewell‚ Tom Robinson has been charged for rape. The court case took place at the Maycomb County Courthouse and enormous crowd of people‚ both white and blacks‚ turned up to observe the trial. The prosecutor was Mr. Gilmer and the defence laywer was Atticus Finch. The case was presided over by Judge Taylor and a
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sexual intercourse between a black man and a white woman was considered by most whites and some blacks… most serious offence. This kind of miscegenation would ‘taint’ racial purity.” This then re-states the negativity of racism during the time of Maycomb in the White community. Despite of Macomb’s racist perspectives they also share very important morals between their communities. Atticus Finch shares with Scout‚” you never really understand a person until you consider things from his [or her] point
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Comparing Raising Families in Maycomb The 1930’s were hard times in Southern America‚ where racism took place and slavery was seen in almost every city. The divisions between blacks and whites lead to believe that whites were and always have been superior. In Harper Lee’s well known book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ we see how families where raised on a day to day basis and how each family dealt with colored people. The Cunningham ’s‚ Ewell’s‚ and Finch’s are three of the more important white families
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In this passage‚ Maycomb is put across in a negative light. ‘Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town…’ The personification of the word tired emphasises the lack of enthusiasm‚ about everything‚ the people of Maycomb have. This also shows how tired and backward Maycomb is. ‘Tired’ also indicates that the town is very boring and new concepts are not welcome‚ everyone is set in their own ways‚ and no is willing to change. There is also the repetition of the word ‘old’ which gives the impression
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There are always going to be "others" in every society and community. In Maycomb‚ "the others" are the Radley’s. The Radley’s are extremely unusual people. They are also very disliked by lots of people in their community. People are scared of them too. The author says many things about what the Radley’s are like for example: "They did not go to church‚ Maycomb’s pricipal recreation‚ but worshipped at home... I never knew how old Mr. Radley made his living---Jem said he ’bought cotton‚’ a polite term
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