years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb‚ Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch‚ who lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus‚ a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified of‚ and fascinated by‚ their neighbor‚ the reclusive "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo and‚ for many years‚ few have seen him
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acceptable and apart of every day life in the small town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Narrated and based around Scout (Jean Louise) Finch and the many ordeals she and her brother (Jem) face in the years of their growing up; out of the childhood innocence they once possessed to realise the true evils of their community and shed false pretences surrounding the innocence of two such characters as Boo Radley and Tom Robinson for which the community of Maycomb had long labelled and ridiculed for either their colour
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Mayella for false accusation. Moreover‚ the ignorant racists; the jurors also have heavy responsibilities on Tom Robinson by showcasing the unfair judgment that was solely based on racial differences. Finally‚ the racism and ignorance of the South‚ Maycomb raised people into racists and sexists which
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Racial Prejudice Racism in the small town of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ in the 1930’s‚ leads to the unjustified death of a black man. Atticus‚ a lawyer who defends a black man‚ gets verbally abused in a racist way by the other citizens of Maycomb. Maycomb‚ Alabama is a racially prejudice town‚ the blacks live poorly‚ while the whites reign supreme to them. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ she fights against racial prejudice from her own perspective. Bob Ewell abuses Atticus verbally several times
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today. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County‚ a small township; separate from the outside world‚ Lee can explain the consequences of prejudice in depth‚ thus leaving the reader with more of an idea. One of the minor characters that plays an integral part in explaining the consequences of social prejudice is Arthur (Boo) Radley‚ a harmless quiet man who will be forever judged on his past. Lee develops the idea of prejudice through conversations in Maycomb‚ having people outcast Boo by only
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of the events happening. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Jean-Louise Finch is the narrator of the story. The entire story is told through her eyes‚ thoughts‚ and imagination. Jean is a six year old girl‚ living in Maycomb County of Alabama in the 1930’s. She lives with her father‚ Atticus Finch‚ her brother Jem Finch‚ and her cook Calpurnia. You are able to see that Jean is the narrator because everything is told through her perspective. She builds a “road map”
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demonstrates how he instills his own values within his children to influence their treatment and perception of all people. Atticus is a lawyer in the town of Maycomb and the parent of Scout and Jem‚ whom he treats as if they were adults. Scout‚ who is six years old‚ is the narrator of the story in which we see life in Maycomb through her eyes over a span of three years. Her brother‚ Jem is four years older than her. They see things differently than most children because of Atticus’s
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and ongoing characterisation the audience understands that the town of Maycomb in which this story is set has the same‚ southern sentiments of racism consistent with 1930’s Alabama. Historically the story is also set during the great depression with people having ‘nothing to buy and no money to buy it with’‚ we also learn about the small town traditions and that keeping to oneself was ‘a predilection unforgiveable in Maycomb’. This all adds to the restrictive views of society in which the protagonists
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Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee illustrates the importance of maintaining the status quo and keeping traditions until one’s morals are threatened. In the Alabama county of Maycomb‚ fitting in is almost instinctive. Each family has a label and each member is expected to conform. Aunt Alexandra describes it as‚ “Everybody in Maycomb‚ it seemed‚ had a Streak: a Drinking Streak‚ a Gambling Streak‚ a Mean Streak‚ a Funny Streak” (Lee 172). Scout finds this absurd‚ not only because Atticus does‚ but because
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