Introduction

In her book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee gives us some of the greatest characters in American literature: Atticus Finch, the noble attorney who fights for justice against all odds; Scout Finch, who shows us what unfolds from her point of view as a precocious yet innocent child; and Tom Robinson, a man unjustly accused and held accountable for a crime simply because he’s a black man. However, these characters are shaped by and interact with a less literal character as well: the book’s setting of Maycomb County, Alabama.