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A 3 page paper which examines the role of the town of Maycomb in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in Alabama and the events that occur there as they relate to the main characters. It is a haunting story, as well as study, of 20th century life in a
community that was clearly racially divided. The town could, realistically, be a town anywhere in the south during that time and as such it stands as almost a character unto
itself in Lees book. The following paper examines the role of the town in Lees novel. Maycomb Harper Lee mentions the town that the story takes place in all
throughout the book. It is not simply a name we are introduced to in the beginning, but rather like it is a character that is playing an important part in
the story and thus needs to be consciously addressed. And, it is very much a town like any other town that may have existed in the south, or still does
exist in the south. In understanding something of the town the paper first looks at some of the quotes that help define the town and its significance in understanding
the story and the events in the story. The narrator, Scout, tells the reader that in this town or region there is "nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no
money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" (Lee 10). In this one gets the impression that it is very much a world unto
itself, despite the fact a world outside of the county exists. Scout, in beginning to describe the Radleys, a family that would play an important role in the story,
stating "The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. They did not go to church, Maycombs principal recreation, but worshiped at home" (Lee 16).
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