Why a Booktrail?
1930s: A true classic in every sense of the word. Maycomb Alabama is fictional but a classic literary location
To Kill A Mockingbird
What you need to know before your trail
Tomboy Scout Finch is growing up in a small town in 1930s Alabama.
She lives with her brother Jem, their father Atticus, and their fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, at the time of the Great Depression.
We experience their childhood with them as they grow up, meet their neighbor “Boo” Radley, and go through school with them.
The pinnacle of this novel is the local and regional scandal of an ongoing trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman. Since Atticus has been called to defend him, this will weigh heavily on the children growing up and raise all sorts of issues through the book
A story – simple at first sight but peel it back layer by layer and it is a novel of many ingredients – racism, innocence, social inequality and justice.
Travel Guide
Although the town of Maycomb, Alabama is fictional, it is thought that Nelle Harper Lee based her book on Monroeville where she was born in 1926. However where ever this book is based, it is about several things at once – racism, injustice, social status, innocence, accusation, and experience.
A booktrail in order to experience a true classic. (Plus one of the novels in the news for being taken off the UK syllabus for GCSEs in 2014.)
“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 County”.
Monroeville is the “Literary Capital of Alabama” as writers such as Nelle Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Mike Stewart, Cynthia Tucker and Mark Childress were born there.
There is even a Alabama Mocking Bird Experience for the most ardent of fans
Streetview Maps
A) The Courthouse Museum
C) North Alabama and Claiborne - the To Kill a Mockingbird mural mural
Where Next?
