... blacks with excerpts such as: "His agony was awful. He pleaded and writhed in bodily and mental pain. Scarcely had the train reached Paris than this torture commenced. His clothes were torn off piecemeal and scattered in the crowd, people catching the shreds and putting them away as mementos........It was horrible- the man dying by slow torture in the midst of ... ...
... of the Depression and the state 5 of the people of Maycomb live in demonstrates that. There are many references made to the poverty they live in, by mention of the clothes they wear and the houses they live in. They wear ragged tattered clothing, Scout always wears over-all's that are dirty and ripped. Some children are kept out of school ... upon one family and forced two children to grow up. Jem and Scout lose their innocence because of the cruel world around them. The quiet southern town of Maycomb is torn apart by trial and events that occur over the course of the novel and only for...
