Thursday, April 9, 2015

What page in the book To Kill a Mockingbird tells you where the school is located?

In the 1960 McIntosh and Otis publication with the purple cover, tree, nest, and mockingbird, the first description of where the school is appears on page nine of Chapter 1.  Scout is describing the Radley home and comments that the Radley place backs up to the schoolyard.  She says,


“The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the...

In the 1960 McIntosh and Otis publication with the purple cover, tree, nest, and mockingbird, the first description of where the school is appears on page nine of Chapter 1.  Scout is describing the Radley home and comments that the Radley place backs up to the schoolyard.  She says,


“The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you.”  She also comments that if a baseball is hit into the Radley yard, it is lost forever.


Because the Radley house is “beyond [Scout's] house . . . walking south,” the school is very close to the Finch house making it only approximately a two or three block walk to school.  Because we are not sure how big the Radley lot is, the school could be a little farther away.  Later in the novel, Scout says she can see the schoolyard from her tree house thus indicating that it is close to the Finches and an easy walk for Scout and Jem to and from school and home for lunch each day.  


See the link below for a map of Maycomb provided by !



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