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 called Maycomb, an imaginary county in Southern Alabama in the United States. In Maycomb, most people were poor. Even the farm owners were always short ... of money. Black people worked at low wages. There was not much around as Scout says, "there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy with." This poverty and unemployment in the county was due to the Great Depressi...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... people and important social issues of that time. There are two depictions in the novel of how to treat someone. One is mercilessly and the other is with kindness like one would treat themself. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming of age as Scout and Jem encounter the problems brought upon by the attitudes of ... . Early in the book, one of Scout's thoughts is "it was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first started to part company. Sometimes I did not understand him but my periods of bewilderment were short lived. This was beyond me." (Lee 61) Early in the novel Scout and Jem are very close. Th...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School