Mood

Setting

Maycomb County Descriptions

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it." - Scout

"Tired and Old" Used to show the contrast between the adults and children. These adjectives are chosen instead of positive ones to represent the hard times and reflect how different parts of society react

"In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop, grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square." - Scout

"Somehow, it was hotter then; a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square." - Scout

"Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and talcum." - Scout

"People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and our of the stores around it, took their time about everything." - Scout

"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 Country." - Scout

"Maycomb Country had recently been told that it had nothing to feat but fear itself" - Scout

Negroe's cabins

Positive descriptions, "their cabins looked neat and snug"
Sensory Images: "there were delicious smells about: chicken, bacon frying crisply"
Appealing/attractive descriptions juxtapose with the Ewell's cabin - a "playhouse of an insane child"
Despite these descriptions, the location of these cabins - next to the garbage dump - reminds us of the Negroe's status as bottom of the social class conventional racist attitudes of Maycomb folk
These descriptions do not suggest a reason as to why they are so heavily discriminated against