Question

Chapter 1 introduces readers to the town of Maycomb, its appearance, its inhabitants, and the particular attitude of many of its people. Find a sentence or a paragraph which illustrates each of the following attitudes/ideas. Quote at least a portion of the sentence or paragraph and give the page number.

1). Pride in ancestry and "tradition"2). Pride in conformity and distrust of those who are different3). Awareness of difference in social classes4). Narrow span of interest and almost no interest in the world outside of Maycomb

Answer 1

1). For this one the quote is "Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorder ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings"(3-4).

2). The quotation for this one is "...people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions"(10-11).

3). Quotation "The sheriff hadn't the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes, so Boo was locked in the courthouse basement" (14).

4). "...nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County" at this part of the text: (6).

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