Maycomb Social Changes

Even among whites, social hierarchy is evident. Each class looks down on the one below it-

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the town of Maycomb is suffering through the Great

'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a novel that was written in the 1960s, but Harper Lee decided to set the novel in the Depression era of the 1930s in a small town in Alabama. Lee provided her readers with a historical background for the affairs of that time and in doing so she exposed the deeply entrenched history of the civil rights in South America. Like the main characters in this novel, Lee grew up in Alabama; this made it easier for her to relate to the characters in the novel as she would have understood what they would have experienced during the period when racism, discrimination and inequality was on the increase within the American society.

Maycomb county is a small town in Alabama. It’s a place where everybody knows everybody. The author Harper Lee got this story and setting from a small town she lived in when she was young. All the characters are based on childhood friends she had personal experience with. Harper was not a writer who wrote for other people she was a writer who wrote for herself. She was persuaded to publish the childhood novel of her and her friends and all of the adventures they have been through. Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finch’s landing (pg5). Maycomb county was an old town, but it was an old town when i first knew it (pg6). The rainy roads turn to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. somehow it was hotter than a black dog suffered on a summer day (pg6).

Few people can imagine living during the time of racial segregation or the great depression. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place from the year 1933 to 1995. During this time, two siblings named Scout and Jem Finch are living in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. While growing up, they go through many events and learn numerous lessons from their father, Atticus Finch. Throughout the novel, Jem goes through many experiences that change the way he perceives the town of Maycomb and it’s people.

To KIll a Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, is set in a small fictional town of Maycomb Alabama in the 1930’s. The story emphasizes the horrors of prejudiced and its impact on a small southern community. In this novel, Harper Lee introduces the reader to many themes, one of them being that courage is doing what’s right even when the odds of succeeding are poor.

To Kill a Mocking bird takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb deep in the south. This town “clings to its ideals, its traditions… People, especially blacks and poor whites are … expected to remain in their places” (Carolyn Jones). The town sticks to what it believes and that is that African Americans, and poor whites, are lower than all the others residing in this tired town. Throughout the novel the reader sees events that can be tied to things happening at the time Lee was writing. For instance, Tom Robinson, a black man, is accused and

To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930s. There is a myriad of families in this small county. Blacks, farmers, businessmen, and strong single women all call Maycomb County home. The book is told from the point of view of a little girl named Jean Louise Finch, or as many of the townspeople call her, Scout. Her father, whom they call Atticus, raises her with her brother Jem. A majority of the book deals with the trial of Tom Robinson, during which Scout begins to understand that not everybody is as fair as Atticus, raised Jem and her to be.

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the

Background Information: In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, she uses a mockingbird to represent Tom Robinson and the social injustice in the small, fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. Claim:

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930’s. One character in the story is Mayella Ewell. She is a white female who lives with her father, Bob Ewell. Mayella is trying to get out of the situation with her sexually abusive father and sets up a plan and accuses a Negro man named Tom Robinson of raping her and her dad catches them. Mayella is powerful enough to do this because of her class, race, and gender.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a novel written by Harper Lee. It is set in America in the 1930s during the Great Depression, a time of economic decline after World War II. The novel follows a young girl called Scout Finch and her brother Jem as they learn about the prejudice and racism within their society of Maycomb County. The children and their widowed father, Atticus have a unique relationship that includes the teaching of valuable life lessons and unusual, maternal nurturing.

Throughout most of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the setting has been predominately revolving around a neighborhood in Maycomb County during the 1930s. The novel describes Maycomb County as “an old town” in which “in rainy weather the streets turn to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks; the courthouse sagged in the square” (Lee 6) The street in which they live was also described as “the main residential street in town” (Lee 6). As the novel continues, the readers’ understanding of the setting grows as well. There are porches on the houses, Scout, Jem, and Dill play in the yard, there is plant life as described as there being “two live oaks stood at the edge of Radley lot; their roots reached out into the side roads and made it bumpy” (Lee 44), and the Finches are shown to have a driveway and car (in chapter 8). This imagery and description allows the reader to concoct an image of this neighborhood.

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a tiny southern town in Alabama in 1932. The tiny town of Maycomb was home to deep rooted racism. Two children named Scout and Jem live in this town with their father Atticus and when their father is sent to defend a black man their lives see a dramatic change. The children soon learn the harsh truth of their little town and lose a childhood full of innocence. In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee foreshadows a loss of innocence through the symbolic significance of building a snowman, a harsh fire, and a mockingbird.

Maycomb, is a segregated, urban area located in Southern Alabama. The small town is filled with black citizens, that are victims of racial discrimination and have their rights stripped from away them because of their skin colour. To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM), takes place throughout the Great Depression and unveils many secrets, untold truths about the life of citizens and explores the struggles dark skin people faced during the Great Depression.The novel is a simplistic view of life in the Deep South of America in the 1930s, which reflects racial and social prejudice, discrimination between blacks and whites. The book is narrated by a young girl named Scout who matures throughout the novel, from an innocent child to a morally conscience young adult. Harper Lee develops concepts by using language forms and features to highlight dominant themes of the novel such as racism. Racism in TKAM has different effects on different characters, such as Tom Robinson, Jem and Scout. Dark skin people faced many hardships throughout the Great Depression, in this novel anyone who was coloured or had connections or relations to coloured people, struggled to have the right to life due to them being black, this had many effects on different characters.