In To Kill a Mockinbird, what is a passage that shows setting shaping the mood/ tone of the story?

Several passages create a mood or a feeling as a result of
the setting in To Kill a
Mockingbird.

In the first chapter, Scout begins
to paint a picture of the town that depicts the Depression quite specifically. People
moved slowly, they were exhausted and hot. This gives the readers a mood of
desolation, loneliness, or
depression. It feels nostalgic, but of a time when
Americans endured, not celebrated. On the other hand, it
was a time when all people had was each other, and in this state,
misery loved company.

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Maycomb was an old town, but it was a
tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop;
grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter
then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked
flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted
by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and
by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.People
moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores
around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed
longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to
buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time
of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it
had nothing to fear but fear
itself.

Setting is
demonstrated throughout the book to reveal tone and
mood:

• When the Radleys place is described, the
  reader feels mysterious, fearful, and
  caution.


• When the courthouse
  is described in chapter 16, the mood is
  anticipatory.


• When the
  people travel to the courthouse in chapter 16, the tone is
  exciting and almost
  celebratory... at least these people had something to do
  for once! We hear this in Scout's descriptions of the people lunching on the lawns and
  using the metaphors and similes of parades and
  circuses.

Finally, the best descriptive scene
in terms of setting that impacts the tone is in chapter 28. The chapter opens with
several references to darkness and uses language of the place as
ominous. Readers get the idea that something terrible is
about to happen. Here are some tidbits from that
chapter:

The
wind was growing stronger, and Jem said it might be raining before we got home. There
was no moon. The street light on the corner cast sharp shadows on the Radley
house...

We turned the corner and I tripped on a root
growing in the road...

We turned off the road and entered
the schoolyard. It was pitch black...

“Didn’t know it was
this dark. Didn’t look like it’d be this dark earlier in the evening. So cloudy, that’s
why. It’ll hold off a while, though.”

Someone leaped at
us!