To Kill A Mockingbird Setting Analysis

How would your behavior, actions, and total all life style be if you grew up over 80 years ago in the 1930’s? To Kill a Mockingbird is a book written by Harper Lee, it is about two kids, Jem and Scout growing up in a small southern town called Maycomb county. Jem and Scout grew up during the great depression with only their father raising them. They also have a very good friend who visits them in the summer, who is called Dill. In the book the setting also plays a big role in developing the characters. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee uses the setting along with certain characters to develop the character Scout. One of the characters, Scout is not what you would consider a typical southern girl in the 1930’s. She is very Tomboyish and not very lady like like most girls at that time. She gets into fights hangs out with boys and wears overalls. Her society tries to make her more of a lady, like she is supposed to be. Scouts father, Atticus on the other hand wants her to embrace her own personality but he does not want her to fight. In one article the author explains why Harper Lee made Scout this way. "Lee’s allusion to this school of thought is borne out in the novel’s discourse between the dignity that Stoics accorded to the individual’s role in society on …show more content…
To Kill a Mockingbird. 50th ed., St. Louis, Turtleback Books, 2010.
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