To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 8 Analysis

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What does chapter 8 tell us about the town of Maycomb and the people who live in it? In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" Maycomb is a small town in Alabama. Maycomb is an old southern town. Scout emphasizes the slow pace, Alabama heat, and old-fashioned values of the town, in which men wear shirt collars, ladies use talcum powder, and the streets are not paved, turning to “red slop” in the rain. This description situates Maycomb in the reader’s mind as a sleepy Southern town; Scout even calls it “tired.” However this changes in chapter 8 as Scout recalls what Atticus said “we had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885” Maycomb has suddenly become bitter and frozen. Maycomb is a close town where everybody knows everything about anybody who lives in Maycomb, except The Radley’s, where in chapter 8 Mrs. Radley dies, but no one really…show more content…
Avery “You can’t go around making caricatures of the neighbours”. Miss Maudie is the complete opposite as a self-centered lady as she says “Only thing I worried about last night was all the danger and commotion it caused. This whole neighbourhood could have gone up.” And in return to Mr. Avery generosity helping she’ll “make him a Lane cake”. Chapter 8 also suggests most of the other neighbors in Maycomb are just as caring and affectionate as Miss Maudie. For example Miss Stephanie has let Miss Maudie stay at her house while her house gets rebuilt. Overall the people of the town of Maycomb are considerate and courteous and even though there is rarely any excitement or interest, when there is the whole town comes together because everyone knows everyone’s business which is good but sometimes it isn’t when the whole town finds some disgrace in someone, which happens to Atticus later on the book and the whole town turns against
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