1. To kill a Mocking Bird
This idea is portrayed in many aspects of the novel, and is directed towards both groups and individuals in the Maycomb community. ... Prejudice is said to be "Maycomb's usual disease". ... Also, the night before the trial, the lynch mob arrives at the jail like a "Roman Carnival", to "watch a poor devil on trial for his life". ... He believe that they might understand as they have not yet caught "Maycomb's usual disease." ...
The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch who lives with her brother Jem and widowed father who is a lawyer in the Alabama town of Maycomb. ... He, however, runs away from home to stay with his aunt in Maycomb for the rest of that summer. The trial of Tom Robinson arrives and when he is placed in the local jail a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus has taken up a position outside the jail anticipating this development. ...
The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch who lives with her brother Jem and widowed father who is a lawyer in the Alabama town of Maycomb. ... He, however, runs away from home to stay with his aunt in Maycomb for the rest of that summer. The trial of Tom Robinson arrives and when he is placed in the local jail a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus has taken up a position outside the jail anticipating this development. ...
The people of Maycomb come up with stories as to why they never see him because Boo is too shy to leave his house. ... The innocence of characters in this book is totally destroyed by the racial and moral thinking's of the Maycomb people, event though the people themselves are not evil. On example of this is when the lynch mob comes to the jail to steal Tom, intending to kill him. ...
A few nights before the trial is set to begin, Atticus is told by some black residents that some angry whites have threatened to kill the imprisoned Tom, so he "guards" his client's safety himself, by maintaining a guard outside the jail. ... Because Scout is somewhat of an outcast herself, like Boo Radley and the black members of Maycomb County, Mississippi, it is easy for her learn compassion for them. ... The setting of To Kill a Mockingbird is Depression era (early 1930s) Maycomb County, Mississippi. ...
In the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" some characters were explained to be as outcasts. Walter Cunningham, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell are outcasts who nevertheless gain sympathy in "To Kill a Mockingbird". Walter Cunningham manages to gain sympathy in the novel because in chapter 2, wh...