To Kill A Mockingbird

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book set in the 1930's in a small town called Maycomb located in Alabama. Often as with small towns, the views are extremely conservative. "There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" remembers Scout (5). Maycomb can be seen as an everybody-knows-everybody kind of town. The majority of the town conforms to the standard norm, which is conservative and reserved for women. While the norm view of blacks in Maycomb is seen as an unequal partnership. The few people who think differently or act differently in Maycomb pay a price for their actions in . The southern women in are modeled after the women gathered with Aunt Alexandra in the parlor. "Of course when I would run inside for a drink of water, I would find the living room overrun with Maycomb ladies, sipping, whispering, fanning," recalls Scout (132). This was the only acceptable way for a southern woman to live in the 1930's if ...

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saying she will go to hell because "she spends too much time in God's outdoors and not enough time inside the house reading the Bible" (44). Miss Maudie is also one of the few people in who thinks the same way as Atticus does with that open-minded approach. While most people think that Boo Radley is a freak show, she does not. "Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that's all" is how Miss Maudie explains Boo to the children (44). She never pre-judges anyone but just simply takes people for what they are. Jem and Scout both realize that Miss Maudie is very different than most of the women in Maycomb. "True enough, she had an acid tongue in her head, and she did not go about doing good, ...

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