To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Setting) The setting is important in the story because the whole story grows out of the particular back ground. The place where the novel is set is a county ... the town. There was no money around for anyone to do progressive projects such as sealing roads and painting buildings. Also the people in Maycomb did not know much about what was going on in other places outside the county. They did not care anything other than their county. Students at school did not even know what "current event ... " was about. This parochialism resulted in people having small ...

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... expressed by Atticus Finch are just as true today as when he spoke them and that they have much to teach today's adolescents about courage, tolerance and decency. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is seen through the eyes of perhaps the worst period of time in the United States, the Great ... likes" their Instagram picture got. The words of wisdom that Atticus gives to his children and his community still have much to tell adolescents today about tolerance, decency and justice. I think that one of the major themes of To Kill a Mockingbird is courage. At a time when racism was widespread...

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