Analysis of the Exposition of To Kill a Mockingbird
Exposition Setting: Main Characters: Plot Point that Launches the Story:
How is this Story Told? -The story is told in the first person point of view. -Scout is the narrator of the story. -The story is told as a retrospective piece. Scout is re-telling the events from the future. -Therefore, the story is written in the past tense.
Tradition and Break of Tradition
“It was a time of vague optimism for some of the people. Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” MARCH 4, 1933: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT’S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
What Is Most Important to the Town of Maycomb?
“They did not go to church, Maycomb’s principal recreation, but worshiped at home.” PG. 11 (REFERRING TO THE RADLEY’S)
Jim Crow in Chapter 1 Page Boo placed in jail “The sheriff hadn’t the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes…”