To Kill A Mockingbird Setting blog

This photograph shows rows of corn and other plants. There isn’t very much food on the plants, though. The soil looks very dry and rocky. There are no weeds around. It looks like someone made a lot of effort to keep it looking good. This picture was taken in a time when people spent many hours farming, making sure there were no weeds and that the crops would grow well. The picture may have been taken during the Great Depression because the farmers needed to work extra hard to make up the money and it seems like the people working on this farm work very hard. In the background there are houses made of wood. They aren’t painted or look fancy but they look well taken care of. Since the houses aren’t painted and seem fairly small, I would assume that the people who live there aren’t very wealthy. There are big trees around them but no people in sight. It looks like a farm. The sun is shining bright and lighting up the houses and plants.The garden seems well taken care of, even if the soil doesn’t look the best. The soil looks dried out, which might be the case if the are was very hot. This picture would be more of a Cunningham house than a Finch house because the Cunningham’s were farmers and were among the people who didn’t have very much money, not knowing when they would eat next. The Finchs, on the other hand were more wealthy, more of a middle class family, so they would not have lived at a place like this.


There are multiple reasons why this photograph might have been taken. The person who took this picture may have been trying to record how well their garden was doing that year. Or, maybe they were trying to see how their garden started out as so they could compare it to how their garden turned out in the end. To me it seems like they were focusing on the garden, but they may have been focusing on the houses. Maybe, they had just finished building the house and wanted to document the occasion. There is no way of knowing the photographer’s true motive, all we can do is guess. In this photograph, there is a still garden with wood houses in the background. There are no people or animals and nothing seems like it is planning on moving anytime soon. It seems like a warm day with the sun brightly shining.

In this photograph, I mostly wonder why there are no people in the picture. In this picture there are crops and houses and sun. It seems like the perfect place for a person to be. Someone should be in this picture either working or just enjoying the beautiful weather. In these times, people were out of their homes most of the day, which is why it is weird that no person is in sight. Scout said, “Jem’n me ain’t ever in the house unless it’s rainin’.” I find it interesting that if they are almost never inside, you see nobody outside in this sunny, beautiful picture. Another thing about this picture that I was curious about was why the people living in this area are growing vegetables. Are they growing them to eat themselves, or are they growing them to sell? They are most likely planning on selling the food they grow to make money. In Alabama, especially at the time of To Kill A Mockingbird, there were a lot of farmers who had to work extra hard to get through the Great Depression. “Farmers… the crash hit them the hardest.”, said Atticus. The crash is all the money they are losing and all the troubles they are going through. Since the farmers are affected the most and it is probably a harder life for them, they might be working hard, making sure the food grows well so it can be sold to give them money. If the people in this photo were poor, it would make sense that their house wouldn’t be painted and they wouldn’t have any unnecessary items around their house.