In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, set in the small, rural town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the early 1930s, community is a big part of the people of Maycomb. In Maycomb, everyone knows each other. All the Folks of Maycomb know about Atticus Finch, the Maycomb attorney and state legislative representative who is assigned to represent Tom Robinson case, Calpurnia, an African-American housekeeper who works for the family and acts as a mother figure towards young Scout and Jem and she is one of the only Negroes in Maycomb who can read and write. Miss Stephanie Crawford, the neighborhood gossip, Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch) and Scout (Jean Louise Finch), son and daughter of Atticus Finch and obviously the mysterious “Boo” Radley who has never shown himself to anyone or came out of his house for 15 years.
Jem and Scout seem to be rightly contented in modest Maycomb, and they have according to the grapevine never traveled anywhere before. Scout for example believes that there is nothing further to see other than the boundaries of Maycomb. Both Jem and Scout have grown up their whole lives in Maycomb,
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Miss Maudie responds with control and logic to her house burning down. There were other town’s people there to help her, such as Atticus, and Boo Radley, who secretly put a blanket around Jem and Scout when Atticus told them to stay in the corner away from the burning house. Not knowing where the blanket came from Jem and Scout had no Idea that Boo Radley had an eye on them, and wasn’t what they expected him to be. Instead he wanted for them to stay safe so he put the blanket around them. This is what another benefit of living as a community is. No matter where in the world we are, people around us understand if we are having a downfall and might or might not be there for you. But from the scenario of Boo Radley, it seems that most people would