To Kill A MockingBird

Harper Lee choose the setting as an imaginary (Maycomb) county in Alabama during the 1930’s. She set the story during this time because it was a time of social turbulence, and a time when Americans began to start thinking about more modern social issues. This was the perfect setting in which to create a theme that illustrates the injustices of prejudice, intolerance, and quick judgments of others. Harper Lee chose to tell the book from …showed first 75 words of 920 total…

…showed last 75 words of 920 total…a woman. Harper Lee succeeds in showing us the place of a lady in Maycomb, anywhere but the business of Maycomb. Harper Lee uses all of the judgments and prejudice in Maycomb to paint a vivid picture of a town that clings to past and the way things have always been. Harper Lee’s descriptions show the fault in the townspeople ability to examine the present and progress into the future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** n/a