TKAM setting

The town of Maycomb is described as a small town by the people that live in it. As stated in the text, "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square.” This description shows that Maycomb is an old, rural town that is under disrepair. There is also a mention of how there is a sleepy have to life in the town. Foe example, "There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County." This shows how boring life could be in Maycomb, and that the town was in a bit of an economic low.

The picture I chose for this comparison is a picture of a church on a farm field. I believe it is similar to Maycomb, because it connects to how rural and religious the town is. For example, "They did not go to church, Maycomb's principle recreation..." This shows just how religious the town can be, as it is something that the majority of the town partakes in. The town is also very rural as stated here, "...Atticus was related by bloodier marriage to nearly every family in the town." This shows how small and rural the town is, because in a larger town people wouldn't be so closely related.

 Delano, Jack. Church and Cotton Field near Greensboro, Alabama. 

 May 1941. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information 

 Black-and-White Negatives, Library of Congress, Greensboro, Alabama