To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is a story about racism, ignorance, fear, intolerance, hate, injustice, learning, heroism, and growing up. It is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus's sister), and (Jem) Jeremy (…showed first 75 words of 2654 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2654 total…at the wrong time. There is no doubt in my mind that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a moving story of racial injustice in the South as well as a touching coming-of-age story. I believe the courtroom scene demonstrates the depth of the racial discrimination in the area, stirring the consciences of all readers. Only the most simple-minded of readers can fail to be affected by the adventures of Scout and Jem.