Setting

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Setting is the place and time period in which the story takes place.

 * __integral setting__: influences action, character, or theme
 * __backdrop setting__: relatively unimportant to the plot

=Describe Maycomb, Alabama.= //To Kill a Mockingbird// is set in the 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama, a town so small and insular that, according to Scout, her father is "related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town." Scout devotes the very beginning of her narrative to a description of her southern heritage, revealing that her English ancestor, Simon Finch, a slaveholding, enterprising skinflint, founded Finch's Landing, a cotton plantation where generations of Finches, including Atticus, grew up. Twenty miles east of Finch's Landing, Maycomb is home to old southern families whose roots, traditions

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maycomb is an old town. there was rainy weather that made the streets turn into red slop. grass grew on the sidewalks. it was very hot in the summer. at night it was cold.