Travel - Writing

Maycomb

I had the oportunity to visit Maycomb in 1930, like 80 years ago, approximately.  It was a beautiful city, with old buildings, and a style similar to the old times (because it was an old time). But, it had many poverty, because it was recently afected by the Great Depresion and the Civil War of 1860. It had an air of distrust and sadness, because of these two events. The city had a environment of lonelyness, to saying it in some way.

The people was nice and friendly, but with an air of sadness. They looked like unmotivated. Also, there was a very big difference between the poor people and the rich ones. There were many poor people, very sad, in the streets, and the rich ones had a very big dfference in their lifes. Thy had a good life, very different from the others. In the streets I could see the rich ones with beautiful clothes, using suits with hankerchiefs and knickers. It was easy to diferenciate the social class of the people. But the rich ones were few. The majority of the people in Maycomb was poor. It was because the Great Depression hit hard the farmers, and Maycomb's principal source of incoming were the farms.The south of USA was very different from the north (I also had the opportunity to visit the north in that times). The north was much developed than the south. I liked it more. Also there was a very big discrimination, against other races and ethnicities. There were some people of some old tribes, and they were treatened different in comparison with the other people. Also there was a discrimination against some families, that were poorer.                                         

Summarising all, it was a beautiful city, but I didn't like it very much because of the environment that it had. To say it in some way, it was depressive. It had an environment of lonelyness and sadness. But, a very good thing of it, was the poeple. All the poeple were nice with me, helping me finding some places and that sort of things. I knew some people that I hope I will see again, I would like it very much. Also mthe kids were very kind, and they gave a little of hapiness to the city, despite the general sadness. Also, despite of the sadness, the people were happy most of the times, at the same time that they were a little unmotivated.