Maycomb In To Kill A Mockingbird

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee contains few aspects about Maycomb black community. This links very well with one of the most important theme of the novel, racism. Harper Lee describe black community as poor, uneducated and unfairly treated people, but in the end Harper Lee tells us that black people are just like anyone else in Maycomb and they deserve to be treated equally.

To begin, Harper Lee describes black community as extremely poor, uneducated group of people. Harper Lee describe the First Purchase African M.E church as ancient paint peeled building, the only church in Maycomb with a steeple and bell/ A few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstone; newer ones were outlines with brightly coloured glass and broken Coca-Cola bottles. This quotation vividly shows how poor these people are. Also, scout realise that most people in the church are not well educated.About four folks in First Purchased read/ there wasnt school even when he was a boy this quotation tells us that majority black people cannot read, just because they didnt have the chance to learn it. These two evidence imply to us that there are some sort of social injustices in Maycomb.
The quote Negroes worshipped in it on Sundays and white man gambled in it on weekdays tells us that White people not only prohibit black from their church, they even gamble in the holy place where people worship in. This kind of action tells us that white man neglect not only black but also their god, even though it is the same one as the whites. All man are equal, one of the most basic belief of Christian is being neglected by