Based on the information in Chapter 1 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, we know that the Finches live on the main street of Maycomb, and heading north, the main street takes you to the town square. In her narrative in Chapter 1, Scout also gives us a minimal description of the layout of her neighborhood though more details are uncovered in later chapters. One thing we know is that Mrs. Henry Lafayette...
Based on the information in Chapter 1 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, we know that the Finches live on the main street of Maycomb, and heading north, the main street takes you to the town square.
In her narrative in Chapter 1, Scout also gives us a minimal description of the layout of her neighborhood though more details are uncovered in later chapters. One thing we know is that Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose lives "two doors to the north" of the Finches, and the Radley Place is "three doors to the south." In addition, Miss Rachel Haveford is the Finches' immediate next-door neighbor though at this point in the story we can't tell if she is their northerly or southerly neighbor. We know Miss Rachel lives immediately next door to the Finches because we know the Finch children are able to look over Miss Rachel's wire fence into her yard from their own back yard, as Scout describes they did on the summer morning they first met Dill:
Early one morning as we were beginning our day's play in the back yard, Jem and I heard something next door in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch. We went to the wire fence to see if there was a puppy--Miss Rachel's rat terrier was expecting--instead we found someone sitting looking at us. (Ch. 1)
In this first chapter, Scout also gives a fuller description of the position of the Radley Place with respect to her own home. Scout describes that the Radley Place "jutted into a sharp curve beyond" the Finches' house so that "one faced its porch" as one walked south. A lamppost also stands just in front of the Radleys' gate.
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