Small southern town situated in Maycomb County in the 1930's. ... Cunningham and a gang of men try to storm the jail and lynch Tom, Atticus only says that "Mr. ... His grasp of a morality scale is unparalleled by anyone in Maycomb County. ... Atticus is not only a excellent citizen in Maycomb County, he was also a ethically outstanding man. ...
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." ...
Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. ... The second-tier in Maycomb is shown by the Cunningham family, who are struggling but they did their best and were proud. ... Two of the men were members in hate-clubs or white supremacist groups and all three had served time in jail for other violations. Although, unlike Tom Robins, the killers were all sent to jail it was a sad commentary on where as a society we were and we are as we enter the millennium. ... Why are wh...
