Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, focuses on the maturation of a brother and sister in the "tired old town (Lee 3)" of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930?s. Maycomb, a classic southern town full of gossip, tradition and burdened with a legacy of racism, seems a strange place to stage a drama which encourages equal treatment and non-prejudice. However, the narrator fresh outlook on the sleepy town furnishes the reader with a multitude of viewpoints …showed first 75 words of 1063 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1063 total…her actions near the end of the novel. Scout sits in the colored balcony and bursts out in tears when Aunt Alexandra says she cant be friends with Walter Cunningham, a schoolmate of Scout's, because the Cunningham?s are not our kind of folks (Lee 224). Lee begins the story with the innocent perspective of Scout and ends the story with a Scout that has changed greatly, but a Scout who still retains her non-prejudiced thoughts.