Where is To Kill a Mockingbird set in?

Answer 1

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the fictional small Southern town of Maycomb in the 1930s (Tom's trial takes place in 1935). Slavery and the Civil War of the 1860s still loom large in the rearview mirror, but the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s is just a speck on the future horizon. Maycomb, despite its civic importance as the county seat, is a small and stagnant town. It's a place where time seems to stand still. Maycomb is its own little world that doesn't know what's happening elsewhere and doesn't care. Few people move there (not much reason to) and few people leave (why bother). This stagnation means that the same families have been around for generations, and family reputations have entered into the local lore as immovable facts. And the way things have always been is racially segregated. Racism, as Atticus says after he loses the Robinson case, is "just as much Maycomb County as missionary teas" (22.11), and it's displayed even in the geography of the town. The African-Americans have their own settlement on the outskirts of white Maycomb, and their own church and cemetery outside the city limits. At Tom's trial the African-Americans sit on one side of the town square, and the whites on the other. Inside the courtroom, the whites have the good seats on the floor while the African-Americans are up in the balcony. It's like the town is one big middle school dance, except that one side has all the power of teachers and then some, and the other has even more limitations than students. Other than a few border-crosses like Mr. Dolph Raymond, whites and blacks in Maycomb don't live together, pray together, eat together, or even die together. So in this town where separate is definitely not equal, for Atticus to act as if Tom Robinson as just as much right to a fair trial as if his skin were white makes some people angrily upset at having to share their rights with people they think don't deserve it, as if human rights were a cake with a limited number of slices. Others are more disturbed that Bob Ewell is able to make the court enforce his false accusation. While the anti-Tom Maycomb is the dominant one, the tiny pro-Tom faction refuses to be erased from the town community.
it was set in Maycomb County in Alabama, at a time after the Civil War, where the majority of people still supported racism and slavery.
Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s

Answer 2

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s, a time of racial segregation and prejudice in the Southern United States. The novel explores themes of racism, social injustice, and moral growth through the story of Atticus Finch and his children, Scout and Jem.

Answer 3

THE SOCIAL SETTING OF THE NOVEL TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, IS ONE OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE

This all depends on the type of setting to which you are referring. Do you mean physical setting or social setting. If you are looking for social setting, Scout gives a beautiful description in chapter one of the novel, beginning with "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town . . ." (Lee 5). The social setting is a bit less flowery. The 1930s in the south were wraught with racism and the Great Depression. The town consists primarily of farmers and a few professionals, such as Atticus. Families in Maycomb who cannot afford to pay for goods often barter with one another. An example of this is Walter Cunningham, Sr. paying Atticus for services rendered with various goods from his farm. Additionally, the town is divided into a "black side" and a "white side." While slavery as an institution no longer exists in this time, institutionalized segregation has created severe racial tensions.

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Answer 4

Maycomb, Alabama. Scout stays in her small, quiet town. Her real boundaries are the school, and calling distance of Cal. (Just a few doors down the road in either direction) In part one, they also go to Finch's Landing to visit family.

Answer 5

The setting of To Kill A Mockingbird is in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression of the 1930's (1933-1935).

Answer 6

Maycomb, Alabama.