Jan 5, 2010

To Kill a Mockingbird | Overview

Background
To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb, a small Southern town in Alabama in the 1930s. The reader is not told the date until more than halfway through the book, but the references to the NRA, Hitler, and the quote “we have nothing to fear but fear itself” set the time in the reader’s mind. The racially divided town and the strict class system help the reader to visualize life in the South during this time period.

List of Characters
Atticus Finch—A Southern lawyer and the father of Scout and Jem.

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