How does Harper Lee convey the truth of the statement 'Maycomb County had been recently told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself'?Your help...

I agree with mckapen1's statement that the central fear in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a fear of the "dark" -- meaning. of course, the white people's fear of black people. The black people are afraid, too, in the novel; no black person will walk by the Radley house at night without whistling, I believe, and Tom Robinson claims on the witness stand that he was more terrified than anything when the Ewell daughter made advances toward him.

The final chapters of the novel address this topic in a fairly direct way. A friend scares Jem and Scout on their way to the Halloween festival (here, there's nothing to fear), but on their way home, when they think it's their friend playing another prank on them, they're really being stalked by an outraged man with a knife (here, there really is something to fear).

Is FDR's famous phrase "true," then? In some cases, at least, yes. Maybe not always.