Where would modern-day Maycomb be located?

Maycomb is based on Monroeville, Alabama. The map here shows where Monroeville is: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroeville%2C_Alabama">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroeville%2C_Alabama</a> Here is background on Monroeville <a href="http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=12084">http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=12084</a> Here's a fun hand drawn map of Maycomb itself: <a href="http://zsp417.tripod.com/id4.html">http://zsp417.tripod.com/id4.html</a>

The web site epodunk.com gives a profile of the fictitious town of Maycomb, based on the author's hometown, Monroeville, Alabama. Interestingly, the town of Monroeville has a mall called Maycomb Mall in recognition of its ficitional namesake. Although Harper Lee based the town on her own hometown, Maycomb could have been any small town in the south of the 1930s. The attitudes and injustices of the era need to be emphasized more than place.

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Where would modern-day Maycomb be located?

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gbeatty

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Maycomb is based on Monroeville, Alabama. The map here shows where Monroeville is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroeville%2C_Alabama

Here is background on Monroeville

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=12084

Here's a fun hand drawn map of Maycomb itself: http://zsp417.tripod.com/id4.html

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linda-allen

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The web site epodunk.com gives a profile of the fictitious town of Maycomb, based on the author's hometown, Monroeville, Alabama. Interestingly, the town of Monroeville has a mall called Maycomb Mall in recognition of its ficitional namesake.

Although Harper Lee based the town on her own hometown, Maycomb could have been any small town in the south of the 1930s. The attitudes and injustices of the era need to be emphasized more than place.