To Kill A Mocking Bird/ MAycomb Society/A grade essay

             "There's four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the
             Ewells down at the damp and the Negroes". Jem chapter 23
             What do we learn about the Maycomb society in "To Kill A Mocking Bird"?
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             'To Kill a Mockingbird' is set out in Maycomb, a town Harper Lee has narrated the story from Scout's standpoint. However she incessantly replaces her approach in order to give a more adult opinion about the events and experiences that happen in the book. She has interconnected Maycomb with her home town Monroeville, Alabama and Scout being herself. Harper Lee has used colloquial language to add a twist of central realism and true characterization in the novel. Harper Lee hasreportedly has also used a sharp tongue, swears liberally and has taken a keen sense of humour.
             "Maycomb was an old town but it was a tired old town when I first knew it..." As Scout has said Maycomb was an old town. It inter connects the negative things that we can find in the novel made Maycomb. Maycomb with old beliefs, old customs and old racist views about everyone, even themselves, had developed racist subdivisions in their quiet community as it says in the beginning of chapter one that 'It was a quiet town' with 'nowhere to go, no one to go with'. The quote give us an overall introduction as to what Haprper Lee has introduced as Maycomb instead of Monroeville
             The book is set in the 1930's but was originally written in the 1950's. Referring to the main context of the book, there is certain real-life relevance that refers to the events that happen in the book, for example, in 1930's share cropping began in order to reconstruct the society after the civil war between the north and south. Tom Robinson is an...

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