The Characters of To Kill a Mockinbird,
The sea, farmed land, an imagined other world - often the setting of a prose work, takes on the importance beyond that of simply providing the characters with a background against which to act out their lives. In any prose work which you have studied show the importance of the writer’s use of setting in the portrayal of character and or action‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, is a novel based in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. However, Maycomb is much more than just a background against which Scout and Jem, two white middle-class children play games and sleep. It is of great importance to the story, which helps the reader to understand the characters and events in Maycomb that are in this novel. The story, written from the point of view of Scout, is set in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s and is a small, safe, self-contained and isolated community in which Jem, an adolescent boy, and his sister Scout, a young girl, live. And through the setting the reader better understands the characters and themes of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. The town is a microcosm of America and it’s problems, values, and everyday life. Which in this novel includes Growing Up, Prejudice, and Courage.
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Approximate Word count = 1021
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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