Significance Of Setting In To Kill A Mockingbird
Novel Notebook: To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Setting/Matter: The setting for this book is Maycomb, a small stagnant town in Alabama in the 1930s. It is a small town so everyone knew everyone in the town. This setting helped contribute to the results of Tom Robinson’s trial. Since everyone else knew each other, the townspeople would know if a member of the jury voted for Tom’s innocence. This greatly contributed to the result of the trial.
This book takes place in the 1930s in the south, which contributes to the prejudice in the jurors at the trial. The whites believed the blacks were inferior to them and that they were bad people without ever doing anything wrong. Racism existed so strongly due to the relatively recent end to slavery. The people in Maycomb kept their traditional views from before and were unwilling to accept that blacks were on their way to being treated as equals. They were going to vote against Tom Robinson no matter how innocent he was. “You know what's going to happen as well as I do Jack, and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all without catching Maycomb’s usual disease” (Lee 101). The people in Maycomb had unjustified …show more content…
Unconventionality: One aspect of this novel that is unconventional is the title of the book. The title does not have much relevance to the actual context of the book, but it still has meaning to a message presented in the book. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 103). The mockingbird is a symbol in the book that represents innocent people that do not intend to harm anyone, but are hurt by the prejudice placed on them. Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are two mockingbirds used in the book. Atticus believes that the mockingbirds represent the innocent people that should not be
1. Setting/Matter: The setting for this book is Maycomb, a small stagnant town in Alabama in the 1930s. It is a small town so everyone knew everyone in the town. This setting helped contribute to the results of Tom Robinson’s trial. Since everyone else knew each other, the townspeople would know if a member of the jury voted for Tom’s innocence. This greatly contributed to the result of the trial.
This book takes place in the 1930s in the south, which contributes to the prejudice in the jurors at the trial. The whites believed the blacks were inferior to them and that they were bad people without ever doing anything wrong. Racism existed so strongly due to the relatively recent end to slavery. The people in Maycomb kept their traditional views from before and were unwilling to accept that blacks were on their way to being treated as equals. They were going to vote against Tom Robinson no matter how innocent he was. “You know what's going to happen as well as I do Jack, and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all without catching Maycomb’s usual disease” (Lee 101). The people in Maycomb had unjustified …show more content…
Unconventionality: One aspect of this novel that is unconventional is the title of the book. The title does not have much relevance to the actual context of the book, but it still has meaning to a message presented in the book. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 103). The mockingbird is a symbol in the book that represents innocent people that do not intend to harm anyone, but are hurt by the prejudice placed on them. Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are two mockingbirds used in the book. Atticus believes that the mockingbirds represent the innocent people that should not be