To Kill a Mockingbird: Relationship Between Brother and Sister Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, focuses on the relationship built between a brother and a sister in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930's. Maycomb, like anyother southern town is full of gossip, tradition, and a legacy of racism. The traditional Southern racism of Maycomb is looked at through the eyes of a young narrator, Scout Finch. These questions are crucial in Scout's search for her own identity. Scout must come to terms with the racism of her town and how it affects the people in h