I think that this picture represents Maycomb County, AL. because it has the look of the general lifestyle for the people who live there. In the book, it explains Maycomb county as, “In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, and the courthouse sagged in the square.” From that, you can tell that Maycomb has dirt roads, and is not well kept up with. I can also guess that Maycomb is very rural, because what we've read so far has told us there are many farmers. We know that black people live in the area because Atticus's chef is black. This is after the war, and right before the great depression, explaining why cars may not have been used as much as walking or other forms of transportation.
The Picture relates to Maycomb because fields are on either side of the dirt road. It is obviously a rural area with nothing except for a tree for a long distance off. It fits the setting of Maycomb in the book almost perfectly, except for the wagon on the side of the picture. In the book, the characters talked about the lines of cars. Another thing I realized, is that the black woman is dressed extremely nicely for a work day. I don't mean to sound racist, but in social studies we went over demographics of the poverty rates based on races, and black people where by far the highest. From the book, they wore dress clothes on Sundays, but I think the rest of the week would have had to been formal wear.
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