The Southern Life

Many consider the southern "ideal" as consisting of stunning manor houses, the breathtaking panorama, and the posh populace; however, this ideal has been severely tarnished due to slavery. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird gives profound insight into the daily lives of citizens occupying a small-town, Maycomb, in the heart of the Deep South. By means of the many distinctive characters, their pre-Civil Rights Movement attitudes are scrutinized by a young girl, Jean-Louise Finch (Scout Finch), and are put into the limelight through the eyes of an innocent. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee utilizes the effects of hypocrisy, symbolism, and irony to criticize a variety of elements in Southern life such as small town provincialism, the defunct educational system, and injustice.…