To Kill a Mockingbird
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- This book starts off with the introduction of Scout Finch, her older brother Jem, and their widowed father Atticus. They live in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. This story took place during the Great Depression, but Atticus was a prominent lawyer, so their family is reasonably better compared to the rest of society.
- Conflict starts when Atticus, the father, takes a case defending an innocent black man, named Tom Robinson. Tom was accused of raping a white woman. Although Atticus clearly proves the man is innocent, the all-white jury still convicts the defendant. The book shows us readers that this is a time of racism and prejudice.
- Atticus' children, Scout and Jem, get a lot of attention because of their fathers case. Their friends at school would mock them and taunt them. They both were faced with such hard times and situations at such a young state of their lives. Fortunately both children learn valuable lessons about justice, commitment, and what is right. Atticus encourages his children to be empathetic and just. He tells them that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird showing that birds are innocent.
- Although Atticus gives clear evidence that the white woman who was raped by Tom was actually attacked by her father Bob Ewell, Tom is convicted, and later killed while trying to escape custody. HIs death is compared to the senseless slaughter of songbirds which is connected to what Atticus says about the mockingbird.
- During this hard time the two children become friends with a neighbor whose name is Arthur Radley also known as Boo. Boo lived in a scary haunted house on their street, and throughout the book you will realize Boo is an extreme introvert. Boo helped Scout and Jem with their imagination, and he ends up being a major symbol in the book, of two life lessons learned by Scout.
- The story climaxes when, Bob Ewell, the man who blamed Tom, attacked Scout and Jem when they were walking home one night. Wounding Jem, Boo Radley came to help them, but ends up killing Bob. A sheriff named Heck Tate, realized what truly happened, but decides to say that Ewell died by falling on his own knife. Scout at the end of the book decides to listen to what her father always taught her. Which was to practice sympathy and understand the circumstances no matter what. And to never let anything ruin her faith in humanity.
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