Maycomb

like the Finch who are on the top and the Cunninghams are in the middle. In a small town like Maycomb Alabama where socioeconomic inequality was highly present, since this story takes place in the 1930’s the years of the Great Depression where people were unemployed, lost there homes and had lack of food, People form Maycomb would treat the people who were affected by this

Brett Mann English 111 Mrs. Stockton September 9th, 2017 The Environment of Maycomb The moment that we hear about Boo Radley, we know that Maycomb is not a normal town. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” She goes into great detail on many aspects of the time. The reason for this amount of detail is to help move the story along in the book. This is due to the fact that Maycomb is not only a town with interesting stories, but is also a town that is setup to motivate some actions in the novel

Maycomb is based around a ¨wealthy¨ to poverty- stricken hierarchy that Harper Lee enjoys to aspire on. There are many families of Maycomb that represent different points of the Maycomb hierarchy. This would include To Kill a Mockingbird´s own main characters, Atticus, Scout, and Jem or the Finch family. Though the hierarchy does not stop at the Finch's, but still seems to traverse to the bottom or more commonly known as the Ewell family. The Ewells are of the utmost underprivileged and vile so-

three literary elements; setting, conflict and character which all help develop the theme. To start off, the setting of the chapter is the Maycomb jail. This is significant because Tom Robinson-the black man who Atticus is protecting in court--is staying at that jail until his case is opened in the summer. In the novel, it describes the jail well, “The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county’s buildings.” This gives you an imagine in your head, showing how ugly the building looks

money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County” (Lee 5). Maycomb County was impacted by the Great Depression, mostly because it was a small community based town. In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Great Depression played a considerable role in the setting, theme, and characters. The Great Depression seemed to engulf smaller cities much faster than it did the bigger cities. The people of Maycomb spent their days standing in town imploring for goods that they

Mockingbird” in a sleepy old town that is located in the southern part of Alabama . Lee based maycomb county on her hometown in Monroeville. Scout describes the town as a very slow and boring town because there aren't other places besides school and church. They also mention that there is no money to spend and also nowhere to spend it because the story is taking place during the great depression. Maycomb county is also described as a safe town where people don’t have to lock their doors, but is undercut

Maycomb, Alabama, is a town featured in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Within the story, the town presents elements of an authentic town of the time period. Set in the 1930’s, the novel centers around gossip, racism, and moral righteousness. Compared to a southern town today, Maycomb is slightly different. However, some things never change. For example, there will always be a town gossip in a small, southern town. Maycomb is a perfect example of a small, quiet town of the time period, and this

Maycomb is a small town in Alabama, whose outskirts are spread alongside the Alabama River. Since it is a small town it has a very close knit community, in which everybody knows everybody. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, both the physical and the behavioural sides of Maycomb and its townspeople are clearly presented. In a physical sense, Maycomb is a very ordinary town. The houses aren’t big and the town square isn’t spectacular but for a small town living during the depression they get a long

In Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the social structure in Maycomb follows an extreme racial bias, defined by racial and economic divisions. Maycomb can be categorized into 4 different levels: Upper Class, Middle Class, Lower Class, and Ambiguous. The upper class consists of people with generational wealth. They have a particular social influence due to their reputation in the town. A great example of this class is the Finches and the Cunninghams. They are essentially established already

increasing too. In Maycomb County, Alabama, the town is like an egyptian pyramid. You have your hierarchies or “big shots” in town, but you also have your poor and middle class whites. But in Maycomb, they put blacks below the poor. The amount of respect for blacks in Maycomb County is as low as bedrock. The novel revolves around an innocent girl by the name of scout. Although she thinks otherwise, Maycomb is an extremely prejudice town. Which starts off my topic of prejudice in Maycomb compared to the