Maycomb is a society in which young children grow up to learn about prejudice, violence and hypocrisy not in school nor in the local library reading through books instead they learn to become one when they don't even no it is happening. This is viewed through out Harper's classic American tale, To Kill A Mocking Bird where preconceived categories have been created for different races and backgrounds. Such categories in a society only contribute to the ease in which preconceived and hypocritical judgments are made.
             These preconceived categories act like an unwritten law in Maycomb. This social order constructs a value of importance to the society and at the bottom of the ranks are the Negroes who have been brought up to think that they insignificant and worthless compared to the white folks. Even the strongest most hardworking pleasant Negro is not valued more then the arrogant, sponging and scummiest of all of the white folk in Maycomb.
             'You know something, Scout? I've got it all figured out, now. I've thought about it a lot lately and I've got it figured out. There's four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.' (Pg 249)
             This is one the foremost reasons why Maycomb is considered narrow minded and bigoted. Another aspect of why Maycomb's society is so narrow-minded is fear, the fear of the unknown.
             I was fairly sure Boo Radley was inside that house, but I couldn't prove it, and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or I would be accused of believing in Hot Steams, phenomena I was to immune in the daytime. (Pg 43)
             This gives us perfect evidence to lawfully assume that no one knows a lot about Boo Radley a man trying to live a lonely life by himself, but is accused of outrages things.
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