We have all wondered what it was like to live in a certain time period. Well in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a family, The Finches, who lives in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Now Maycomb is a small, unique town with a small population. With the small population everybody knew each other very well. It’s just amazing how Lee describes the town as if it was her own. All the detail she gives makes it seem real while reading it. The detail is what makes the book come to life. At the time maycomb was an old school country living kind of town. People didn’t care what you did. Everybody seemed to mind there own business and do there own thing. In the book it states that “ … bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.” (page 11) This shows how slow the town was and how daily things went. It also states that “ In the rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged on the square.” (page 11) with …show more content…
For one it would be a little weird, And to be honest I don't think Scout and Jem would fit in. First off it is much colder in New York and North Dakota. Scout would really think the world was ending when it snowed because she about died when she barely got some at home in Maycomb. I also don’t think any of the people in Maycomb would like the cold because i’m sure crop season would be shorter in New York or North Dakota. But if the story was placed in one of these states everybody would wear a lot more clothing to stay warm. I also think they would have a totally different lifestyle and probably a different accent. The blacks would probably be treated differently