"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the small, rural town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the early 1930s. The character of Atticus Finch, Scout's father, was based on Lee's own father, a liberal Alabama lawyer and statesman who frequently defended African Americans within the racist prejudiced Southern legal system. Scout and her brother Jem were raised by their father and by Calpurnia, an African-American housekeeper who works for the family. The central ideas of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is racial prejudice within this social class, gender, race, good and evil. Atticus Finch represents a strong perspective that runs through to the ignorance and prejudice of the white, Southern, small-town community he lives in. Harper Lee has created a powerful story to teach us and enable us to connect with prejudice issues that were in the 1930s like it is today. Through the use of the idea prejudice, Harper Lee has raised the concern of social inequality, this is evident thorough the setting and characters presented in the book. The book is set during the 1930s which was a time during the Great Depression, and a time of economic failures. The different social status’ are examined through the social hierarchy of Maycomb. The more well-off finches stand near the top of Maycomb's social class, with the rest of the town below them. Farmers like the Cunningham's are next in line, who lie below the towns people with the Ewell's knowns as ‘white trash’ and are at the very bottom. African Americans stand no chance in the town, they are the lowest of all the community, despite their admirable qualities. These social divisions that make up the society’s world are revealed as destructive. Harper Lee has proven this in the novel when she explains how Scout cannot understand why Aunt Alexander refuses to socialize with the Cunningham’s. She also uses the children’s lack of understanding at the unpleasant triangle of Maycomb's society to review the