to kill a mocking bird

Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, focuses on the maturation of a brother and sister in the "tired old town (Lee 3)" of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930?s. Maycomb, a classic southern town full of gossip, tradition and burdened with a legacy of racism, seems a strange place to stage a drama which encourages equal treatment and non-prejudice. However, the narrator fresh outlook on the sleepy town furnishes the reader with a multitude of viewpoints …

…her actions near the end of the novel. Scout sits in the colored balcony and bursts out in tears when Aunt Alexandra says she cant be friends with Walter Cunningham, a schoolmate of Scout's, because the Cunningham?s are not our kind of folks (Lee 224). Lee begins the story with the innocent perspective of Scout and ends the story with a Scout that has changed greatly, but a Scout who still retains her non-prejudiced thoughts.