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Question number one chapter one
In Maycomb, Alabama, around the era of the great depression, Scout describes the town and people living in it plainly boring, hot, filthy, slow, with an abandoned feel. "In rainy weather, the streets turned into red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the court house sagged in the square"(Lee 5). "People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything"(Lee 5). This reveals how the Great Depression really had a major impact on people and communities. Question number two chapter one
Scout describes how Jem and she share different and similar feelings about their family. Take, For example, Scout has no feeling of absence for her

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