Figure 1.-- Every small town has it secrets. For Jem, Scout, and Dill the scary scret was the Bradley house and the talles they had heard about Boo. |
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in a small southern (Alabama) town during the Depression. This is an excellent book or film for those wanting to know what the American South was like before the Civil Rights movement, although perhaps not conveying the full horror of the system. The novel is beautifully done. The one aspect it does not show is the extent to which the police in the South were involved in the Klan and a key part in the Jim Crow system of extra-legal terror. The Sheriff in this town is a symathetic character. There mut have been some Alabama sheriffs like him. But there were many more who were actively involved with the Klan and for whom the law was a mere formality. The film was made during the 1960s at the height of Civil Rights movement. The film does show the relations among the town folks nicely. Atikus Finch humors the ekderly neighbor who thinks Scout is too much of a tomboy. And the other way down the street is a scary house with a dark secret. Hoovering over all is both the Depression and the South's segregation system.
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