Judge Paul Heath Till's essay Manners, Morals, Customs, and Public Perception illustrates the various aspects of Southern culture during the writer's youth. In this article, Till explains the manners, morals, and customs that hew grew up with, and how they should be applied to Southern culture today. Many of the ideas portrayed in Manners, Morals, Customs, and Public Perception are prominent in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel set in a Southern town in the 1930s. The explanation of Southern civility in Manners, Morals, Customs, and Public Perception is reflected in To Kill a Mockingbird since both writing pieces incorporate the concepts of respect and pride in family name, and
