How to pronounce“maycomb”in English

the class structure of Maycomb that Scout is able to achieve a small measure of justice.

But class is deeply entrenched in Maycomb; like, when Scout asks her Aunt Alexandra if she can invite a poor classmate named Walter Cunningham home, Alexandra tells her: “…you

courthouse sagged in the square.” And many of Maycomb’s inhabitants also have bodies that are broken, infected, or off-balance, right?

serve on a jury in the town of Maycomb — Maudie, “because she’s a woman,” and Calpurnia, because she is both a woman and black.

So that’s one way that race and gender discrimination manifested itself in Maycomb.

I mean, we’re told that Maycomb is a town in which, “In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the

He wants to serve as an example that will prevent his children from, quote, “catching” racism, which he calls, “Maycomb’s usual disease.”