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"....jutted into a sharp curved beyond our house. Walking south, one faced its porch; the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it. Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda (porch); oak trees kept the sun away. The remains of a picket (fence) drunkenly guarded the front yard - a swept yard that was never swept - where Johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco grew in abundance." Page 8
"Early one morning as we were beginning our day's play in the back yard, Jem and I heard something next door in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch" Page 8
"When I was almost six and Jem was nearly 10, our summertime boundaries (within calling distance of Calpurnia) were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house two doors down to the north of us, and the Radley Place three doors to the south." Page 7
The setting of all of the locations in To Kill A Mockingbird are extremely important to the text, as there are multiple events in it which very well could of changed the plot significantly. For example, when Scout & Jem are walking home at the very end of the book from the Halloween Pageant, they are attacked by Bob Ewell, and could of been killed by him had Boo Radley not been there to save him. And Boo Radley was only close by because they were taking a path close to his residence, so Jem & Scout could be deceased in TKAM had the Radley place not been located so close to their route home. Another example of location of buildings affecting plot in TKAM is when Jem & Scout are forced to pass Mrs Dubose’s house everyday, with her always insulting the children and their father. In retaliation, Jem takes a baton and destroys all of her flowers, and because of this, is forced by his father to read to her for a month, before she passes away a little over a month after the punishment is over. Atticus reveals that she had a morphine addiction, and that reading helps soothe her and helped combat the addiction. This is a turning point in TKAM plot as it is the first real-life situation that is not all pleasant that Jem & Scout are exposed too, which creates a shift in the story to later reveal Atticus’s trial. Because these small details of location can so radically change the outcome of the story, we can say that they are extremely important to the text.
"We strolled silently down the sidewalk, listening to porch swings creaking with the
weight of the neighborhood, listening to the soft night-murmurs of the grown people on
our street. Occasionally we heard Miss Stephanie Crawford laugh." Page 27
"Another fire truck appeared and stopped in front of Miss Stephanie Crawford’s." Page 38
"I think some money changed hands in this transaction, for as we trotted around the corner past the Radley Place I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem's pocket's. When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard..." Page 20
"When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. 'What are you shooting at?' 'Miss Maudie's rear end'. Atticus turned and saw my generous target bending over her bushes. He pushed his hat back to the back of his head and crossed the street." Page 121
"Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once an N word cabin" Page 90
"It was impossible to go to town without
passing her house unless we wished to walk a mile out of the way" Page 54