To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 14
Maycomb
Meridian
, AL
, MS
"He walked the rest of the way to Maycomb."
To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch’s closing speech)
Washington
"Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 8a
, AL
"Gracious, I’ll have the finest yard in Alabama."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 26
Maycomb
, AL
"The adults in Maycomb never discussed the case with Jem and me"
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 27
Maycomb
Montgomery
, AL
"By the middle of October, only two small things out of the ordinary happened to two Maycomb citizens."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 16
"Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know- doesn't say much for them, does it?"
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 1
Abbottsville, AL
Boston, MA
Finch's Landing, AL
Maycomb, AL
Meridian, MS
Mobile, AL
Montgomery, AL
Pensacola, FL
Philadelphia, PA
Saint Stephens, AL
Tuscaloosa, AL
, AL
, MS
"they rode the bus to Abbottsville on Sundays and went to the picture show"
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 10
Maycomb
Mobile, AL
Montgomery, AL
The Landing
"Tim Johnson was the property of Mr. Harry Johnson who drove the Mobile bus and lived on the southern edge of town. Tim was a liver-colored bird dog, the pet of Maycomb."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 11
Maycomb
Mobile, AL
, AL
"the business section of Maycomb drew us frequently up the street past the real property of Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 12
Birmingham, AL
Maycomb, AL
Meridian, MS
Montgomery, AL
, AL
"there were sit-down strikes in Birmingham; bread lines in the cities grew longer, people in the country grew poorer."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 13
Maycomb, AL
Mobile, AL
Montgomery, AL
, AL
""For a while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty"
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 17
Abbottsville
Maycomb
"The solicitor, a Mr. Gilmer, was not well known to us. He was from Abbottsville"
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 2a
Meridian, MS
Mobile, AL
, AL
"Dill left us early in September, to return to Meridian."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 3a
Maycomb
Old Sarum
"When in tranquillity, her grammar was as good as anybody's in Maycomb."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 4a
Bay St. Louis, MS
Maycomb, AL
Meridian, MS
, AL
, MS
"he had seen two twins hitched together get off the train in Bay St Louis"
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 5
Nashville, TN
"Uncle Jack Finch confined his passion for digging to his window boxes in Nashville and stayed rich."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 9a
Maycomb
Meridian, MS
Mobile, AL
, MO
"Cousin Ike Finch was Maycomb County’s sole surviving Confederate veteran."
To Kill a Mockingbird - Opening
Boston, MA
Maycomb, AL
Mobile, AL
Montgomery, AL
Philadelphia, PA
Saint Stephens, AL
, AL
, TX
"the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine."