Poverty

Setting

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Maycomb County

Finch Family

Cunninghams

Ewells

Calpurnia's Church

Scout: “behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin. The cabin's plank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its roof shingled with tin cans hammered flats, so only its general shpae suggested its original design...The varmints had a lean time of it, for the Ewells gave the dump a thorough gleaning every day, and the fruits of their industry..made the plot around the cabin look like the playhouse of an insane child....[with] scrawny ornage chickens pecking hopefully.“

Scout: "their relief check was far from enough to feed the family, and there was strong suspicion that Papa drank it up anyway"

Scout: “He’s one of the Ewells, ma’am,They come first day every year and then leave."

Scout: "I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers. My first impulse was to get it into my mouth as quickly as possible, but I remembered where I was. I ran home, and on our front porch I examined my loot.

Scout: “I had long had my eye on that baton: it was at V. J. Elmore’s, it was bedecked with sequins and tinsel, it cost seventeen cents.”

“That’s okay, ma’am, you’ll get to know all the county folks after a while. The Cunninghams never took anything they can’t pay back—no church baskets and no scrip stamps. “

“Walter Cunningham's face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms. His absence of shoes told us how he got them. People caught hookworms going barefooted in barnyards and hog wallows. If Walter had owned any shoes he would have worn them the first day of school and then discarded them until mid-winter“

Scout: "In Maycomb County, it was easy to tell when someone bathed regularly, as opposed to yearly lavations"

Scout: "Atticus said professional people were poor because the farmers were poor."

Scout: "There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see out side of Maycomb County"

"One by one, the congregation came forward and dropped nickels and dimes into a black enameled coffee can. Jem and I followed suit, and received a soft, “Thank you, thank you,” as our dimes clinked. To our amazement, Reverend Sykes emptied the can onto the table and raked the coins into his hand. He straightened up and said, “This is not enough, we must have ten dollars."

Money

Money was hard to get and goods costed more than people could afford

Money

Education

Some families couldn't afford the children going to school since they needed to gaining money for the family

Money

Education

Money

Ewells & Cunninghams

Money

The citizens of Maycomb

African American population in Maycomb

The citizens of Maycomb