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	To Kill A Mockingbird
		For example when Maycomb is described in the first paragraph, Scout comically tells of female behaviour in Maycomb, as she is certain that she did not want to grow up like ‘soft teacakes’ and conform to society’s insistence that she behave ‘like a girl’ and wear a skirt.
		Maycomb was already awash with poverty, partly shown by the new currency the Cunninghams were adopting, whereby a ‘bushel of potatoes is charged for the delivery of a baby.
		The Haverfords in Maycomb County was ‘a name synonymous with jackass’, the Cunninghams were ‘an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the north part of the county’ who formed the ‘nearest thing to a gang ever seen in Maycomb’ and the Ewells had been ‘the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations’.
	www.gcseguide.co.uk /mockingbird.htm (1439 words)

	Maycomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maycomb is a small town that was created by Harper Lee in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird.
		The fictional town was actually based on Harper's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
		The people of Maycomb tried to view life positively, being optimistic in order to cope with the Great Depression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maycomb (110 words)

	Essays
		Maycomb citizens believe that Tom Robinson is not, and should not be, a part of their lives or of their community Atticus, on the other hand, finds faults with the towns' traditional views.
		Maycomb, a classic southern town full of gossip, tradition and burdened with a legacy of racism, seems a strange place to stage a drama which encourages equal treatment and non prejudice.
		People at Maycomb county, both fl and white, were very prejudiced against the idea of miscegenation and those who committed it and would immediately marginalise anyone who disregarded the general 'rule' and had sexual intercourse with a person of another race.
	www.mackems.net /KS4/Mockingbird/Essays.htm (17974 words)

	Free Essay The Message About Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird
		Maycomb is an old and tired town that puts a negative light on the town and the people.
		Maycomb is very backward and isolated due to the town being far from the river, which was the main form of transport in the early days.
		Maycomb is a very religious town with the foot-washing Baptists appearing to have a strong influence on the community.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26262 (1281 words)

	GradeSaver: To Kill a Mockingbird Essay: The Impact of Class Structure
		The rigid class structure and social stratification of Maycomb County had a profound effect on the events in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
		The third class of Maycomb County was the " white trash.² The Ewells, who lived at the dump and relied on welfare for survival, were members of this group.
		The strong prejudice of Maycomb County and the negative effects of its social strata were demonstrated by the trial of Tom Robinson.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/killmockingbird/essay1.html (966 words)

	PlanetPapers - Do you agree with Miss Maudie that Maycomb has advanced as a result of the Tom Robinson case?
		Maycomb County’s leading sheriff, Heck Tate is one of the few who does not side with any one particular race.
		These people play a dramatic role in bringing the town of Maycomb a step closer to changing, as they become conscious to the fact that all Negroes are human too.
		Lee’s portrayal of Maycomb is, in a sense, pragmatic.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4936.php (1347 words)

	About The Author Book Review ...
		The Maycomb community was part of the south, and although slavery was legally abolished whites had power over fls.
		Maycomb in the beginning is a town full of gossip.
		This novel shows the prejudice of the people of Maycomb and how it could affect those who are attacked by it, however in the long run it will affect those who discriminate as well.
	www.tqnyc.org /NYC041070/tokillamockingbirdindex.htm (2735 words)

	Atticus (In-Depth Analysis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As one of the most prominent citizens in Maycomb during the Great Depression, Atticus is relatively well off in a time of widespread poverty.
		Unable to abide the town’s comfortable ingrained racial prejudice, he agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a fl man. Atticus’s action makes him the object of scorn in Maycomb, but he is simply too impressive a figure to be scorned for long.
		Ironically, though Atticus is a heroic figure in the novel and a respected man in Maycomb, neither Jem nor Scout consciously idolizes him at the beginning of the novel.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/mocking/terms/charanal_2.html (387 words)

	SparkNotes: To Kill a Mockingbird: Part Two, Chapters 12–13
		Maycomb’s fl church is an old building, called First Purchase because it was bought with the first earnings of freed slaves.
		Aunt Alexandra explains that she should stay with the children for a while, to give them a “feminine influence.” Maycomb gives her a fine welcome: various ladies in the town bake her cakes and have her over for coffee, and she soon becomes an integral part of the town’s social life.
		Dill’s absence from Maycomb coincides appropriately with the continued encroachment of the adult world upon Scout’s childhood, as Dill has represented the perspective of childhood throughout the novel.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/mocking/section6.rhtml (962 words)

	TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
		The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading flsmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody.
		He liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch's industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.
		Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/0060194995-excerpt.asp (1485 words)

	Random House : Book extract from To Kill A Mockingbird
		The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading flsmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defence for anybody.
		The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chicken-yard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the school yard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you.
		Nobody in Maycomb had nerve enough to tell Mr Radley that his boy was in with the wrong crowd.
	www.randomhouse.co.uk /catalog/extract.htm?command=search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0434012602 (4278 words)

	Slashdoc - A Study Of The Different Types Of Prejudice Depicted In To Kill A Moc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Maycomb people have very inward looking views and so these views are passed on from generation to generation.
		Another example of the backwardness of Maycomb is the telephone operator as she has one of the most important jobs.
		Prejudice in Maycomb is due to the snobbish and intolerant attitude towards those of a lower class.
	www.slashdoc.com /documents/54168 (3860 words)

	PlanetPapers - Integrity in To Kill a Mockingbird
		The Southern culture of Maycomb derives from the antebellum culture of Christianity and slavery.
		The community of Maycomb is built from this sense of integrity.
		The most significant event in To Kill a Mockingbird that demonstrates Maycomb’s dividing sense of integrity is when the jury convicts the Negro, Tom, guilty.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4591.php (964 words)

	maycomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		You are the editor and sole journalist for the Maycomb County newspaper.
		Scout recounts the story of her childhood from the perspective of an adult.
		Consider the pages you create ones that she might have encountered during thirty-eight years of her life in Maycomb.
	www.natick.k12.ma.us /~kelle_shugrue/maycomb (314 words)

	To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
		The camera descends on a sleepy view of a small, languid town, Maycomb, Alabama, in the early 1930s at the height of the Depression.
		Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it.
		Although Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself...That summer, I was six years old.
	www.filmsite.org /toki.html (2452 words)

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		The impact of this class structure was especially evident in the trial of Tom Robins on, a Maycomb Negro.
		The fourth and lowest class in Maycomb was best described as a "caste" because it was impossible to escape from it.
		It was the Ewells who were white trash against Tom Robinson, a kind, fl man. The jury's decision proved one sad, undeniable fact-when a fl man's word went against a white man's word, the white man, regardless of his background, would always be victorious.
	www.textfiles.com /reports/ACE/mock.txt (650 words)

	To Kill a Mockingbird - Resources
		Her father that is a lawyer and the parent of two lives in a small farm town in Maycomb County, Alabama.
		The people of Maycomb were told they had “nothing to fear but fear itself”.
		When she asked Attic’s he explained to her about the trail know matter who says what Maycombs still our home in they are still our friends but promiss not to put up a fight She did until Christmas.
	www.wccusd.k12.ca.us /gompers/Mockingbird/ChapterSummaries.html (5690 words)

	Essays on To Kill a Mockingbird
		Maycomb County is a small community, and has been isolated in the years following the Civil War.
		There are only two significant outsiders in the novel: Dill, who is not a full time Maycomb resident but who becomes almost a member of the family during his summer vacations, and Mr Raymond who belongs by birth to the rich white group but who prefers to live with the fl.
		Dolphus Raymond is considered to be a type of oddball in Maycomb, because he is a white man yet prefers to live with the Negroes.
	uk.geocities.com /lesleycody_1998/mockessa.html (1983 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Atticus began his law practice in Maycomb, the county seat of Maycomb County, where his "office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard, and an unsullied Code of Alabama." His first case entailed defending two men who refused to plead guilty for second-degree murder.
		Scout describes as her father as entirely "satisfactory," and her family's fl cook, Calpurnia, as strict and "tyrannical." Scout and Jem's mother died of a heart attack when Scout was two and she has no memories of her.
		They did not go to church, Maycomb's principle recreation, but worshipped at home." Her choice of the word "recreation" to describe church worship hints toward the townspeople's ethical hypocrisy, especially in its close conjunction with the idea of forgiveness, a major Christian virtue.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/killmockingbird/section2.html (5077 words)

	To Kill A Mockingbird Symbols Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The event of a snowstorm in the rural south (Alabama) is very out of the ordinary, which causes the reader to believe that it had to mean something big, and unexpected was going to take place.
		Tom Robinson a fl man in Maycomb County was charged with the rape of seventeen-year-old Mayella Ewell.
		Your father is one of them.” This was just one of the hurtful things that some of the people had to say about Atticus, and the fact that he was helping a Negro.
	www.beaconschool.org /~rmorris/tkm.htm (516 words)

	Harper Lee
		Set during the Great Depression, the readers are transported to Maycomb County, Alabama, where they are asked to bear witness to the tragedy of intolerance.
		The prejudices of race, age, sex, and socio-economic circumstances and the ensuing struggles and consequences that these prejudices bring about are convincingly portrayed within the stories of the town’s individuals.
		It is the crashing down of socially-contrived boundaries that are at the center of this novel, the epicenter occurring during the trial of young Tom Robinson, a humble, fl man wrongly accused of raping a white woman.
	www.jscc.cc.al.us /ita/projects/lara_walls/harper_lee.htm (518 words)

	Mockingbird
		Students will review and analyze Harper Lee's descriptions of Maycomb and then review and analyze John Dollard's sociological description of a typical town in the deep South in the 30s.
		Students will be asked to contrast Lee's description of Maycomb with Dollard's description of "Southerntown." Students will then use both descriptions to draw a composite map of a southern town and a southern county.
		Students will understand that the South was very rural during the 1930s and that most people lived in the country surrounding towns like Maycomb.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /mockingbird.htm (1508 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on To Kill a Mockingbird - Plot Summary Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One night a group of men come to Atticus and warn him that tarnsferring Tom to Maycomb jail might be danger, as well, during the night where Tom is in Maycomb jail, all this mod come to the front of the jail and wanted to take Tom.
		And during the talk between Atticus and the mods in front of the jail, there are a reporter at the back throughtout the whole event, with his shotgun ready to protect Atticus, this show the tension this event have brought to people around it.
		What make her say that is the things Maycomb did during this event, people have changed a little bit.
	www.antiessays.com /essay.php?eid=604 (5918 words)

	Maycomb County - Map of the town, Chapter by Chapter notes, Resume, Summaries, Harper Lee
		Maycomb County - Map of the town, Chapter by Chapter notes, Resume, Summaries, Harper Lee
		Maycomb is a fictional town, where To Kill a Mockingbird takes place.
		We are here not to give answers or to help you cheat but to help understand the novel.
	www.maycombcounty.com (150 words)

	To Kill A Mockingbird 2
		We also see how the county of Maycomb cruelly discriminates against the fl community even though they are more respectable than people like the Ewells.
		For example, she states, "The cabin's plank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its general shape suggested it's original design: square, with four tiny rooms opening onto a shotgun hall, the cabin rested uneasily upon four irregular lumps of limestone.
		This is because communities like Maycomb just assume that because a culture is a little bit different they are not as good a the norm of the society.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/To_Kill_A_Mockingbird_2.html (760 words)

	To Kill a Mockingbird Book Notes Summary by Harper Lee: Chapter 1
		To this day she insists that the entire incident began with the Ewell family, the most wretched family in Maycomb County, but Jem disagrees.
		Scout remembers that Maycomb was a tired, slow-moving town when she first knew it as a child years ago.
		Miss Stephanie explained that the story about Arthur Radley, known to the children of Maycomb as Boo, was that he got involved with the wrong crowd when he was a teenager.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/tkm/PART1.htm (1266 words)

	www.myspace.com/meridianandmaycombs
		Were just some friends that love music and make music that sounds good to us.
		Thanks to all of you for listening, it means more than you can know.
		just because of this whole ''the decade'' band doesn't mean that meridian and maycomb is done.
	www.myspace.com /meridianandmaycombs (806 words)

	Essay: What do we learn about the Maycomb society in To Kill A Mocking Bird? - Coursework.Info
		'To Kill a Mockingbird' is set out in Maycomb, a town Harper Lee has narrated the story from Scout's standpoint.
		However she incessantly replaces her approach in order to give a more adult opinion about the events and experiences that happen in the book.
		She has interconnected Maycomb with her home town Monroeville, Alabama and Scout being herself.
	www.coursework.info /GCSE/English_Literature/Prose_Fiction/By_Author/Harper_Lee/What_do_we_learn_about_the_Maycomb_society_in_L13970.html (312 words)

	Story Analyses
		A variety of prejudices combine to form the character of the town of Maycomb and to influence the development of the author's narration.
		In an attempt to avoid the changing times, the small town southerners of Maycomb County hold onto their fixed attitudes regarding race, class, and gender by indulging in the myths they have perpetuated; the children have a fixed attitude concerning Boo Radley and Mrs.
		The Ewell family is considered white trash by Maycomb's standards, but as they are still white, the townspeople side with their story, even though Atticus is able to expose it as a pack of lies.
	www.dramatica.com /story/analyses/analyses/tokillamockingbird.html (8745 words)

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