To Kill A Mockingbird Setting

TKAM Essay
Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. New York: Grand Central, 1982. The book, To Kill a Mockingbird, is written by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book about the narrator, Scout in her hometown growing up. The book covers problems of racism and prejudice. The setting of To Kill a Mockingbird is in Maycomb County, Alabama in 1933. There are “no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama” (Lee 79), and it had “not snowed in Maycomb since 1885” (86). Ms.Maudie was Scout and Jem’s neighbor, and she lived in a Another setting discussed in the book ijs the African American community. Near the church, “graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; newer ones were lined with brightly colored glass” (157). Inside of the church, there were pews, and an altar, but no song books. Finch's Landing is another setting of the book. The “landing consisted of three hundred and sixty steps down a high bluff and ending in a

Bob Ewell is a main character in the book. Bob’s full name is Robert E. Lee Ewell, and Bob is a drunk. Bob’s Family “had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations” (40). Calpurnia was the maid of the Finch house. She took care of Scout and Jem when Atticus was not home and “was something else” (6). Tom Robinson was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. He had a “rubber-like left hand” (254) because it got caught in a cotton gin. Dill Harris was seven and “his hair was snow white” (9). Dill often played with Jem and Scout when he came to Maycomb in the summers. He lived with his Aunt Rachel in the summer, and was obsessed with Boo Radley. Boo Radley is Jem and Scout’s neighbor. Boo has been locked in his house by his father and brother and his real name is Arthur. Boo is pale from being locked in his house and is clumsy. He is kind towards Jem and Scout and even saves them from Bob