... story. Although the town, Maycomb, portrays both a happy community and a pretty little town on it's surface, underneath it exposes its ugly division formed by the sad, ongoing issue of racism. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in a small, southern town in 1930's America. This is a period after the civil war, during the depression. It was during this time period that the townsfolk were going ... worse than a sulky darky." (P. 256) These two quotes show how unknowingly hypocritical Miss Merriwether is because she is first talking with passion about how sorry she feels for the Negroes abroad bu...

• Word Count: 1969
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... For Atticus Finch, most things are "as simple as black and white". In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there is one character who is able to make an impact on his children and both types of society. Atticus is a single parent who tries very hard to make everybody he interacts with satisfied. Atticus Finch has a strong impact on the people around him ... stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate" (21). Miss Caroline is very impressed that a 7 year old is able to read such literacy as stock market quotes from a newspaper. Sc...

• Word Count: 1814
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School