To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is a story about racism, ignorance, fear, intolerance, hate, injustice, learning, heroism, and growing up. It is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus's sister), and (Jem) Jeremy (The older of Atticus's two children), Scout (The younger of the two. She also try’s to be a boy by doing boy things), and you can't forget their black maid Calpurnia. Miss Rachael is Dill's aunt that li