Harper Lee uses details in this passage  to present Miss Maudie’s view of Maycomb by using Atticus as an example. Miss Maudie explains to Jem that, “some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your Father is one of them.” This refers to Atticus being a Lawyer and how it is a unpleasant job because it involves a lot of racism and not many people want to do it. Also she tries to explain that there are good people in Maycomb like herself and Atticus.

Harper Lee shows that a small town like Maycomb has a lot of racism in it and also its quite scary because everybody knows everyone’s business. In Maycomb, the black people are separated from white people because white people think that black people are the inferior race in America in the 1930’s. Another reason why Maycomb is scary is because of people like Bob Ewell. This is because he tries to kill Atticus and almost succeeds if it wasn’t for Boo Radley. In such a small town the news spreads quickly so everybody finds out by morning.