Summary of To Kill a Mockingbi

The book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a magnificent story about guilt, fairness, race relations, and about life itself. It is told in the eyes of an already mature six-year old girl named Jean-Louise Finch, “Scout” for short. In the midst of the story “Scout” and her older brother Jeremy Finch, also known as Jem, grew more in their maturity by seeing certain events that happened around them.

The stories major conflict is self-against-community while at the same time self-against-self. When “Scout’s” father, Atticus, was faced with defending a black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white girl, he new that his family would be ridiculed due to the racial prejudice of the time and place; that being Alabama in the 1930s. Additionally Tom Robinson, the accused, was a friend of Atticus. Atticus was faced not only with defending Tom throughout the trial, but also faced with defending his action to his c

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Another self-against-self conflict within the story is Scout’s and Jem ‘s dealings with their neighbors, the Radleys. Jem was then carried home and laid him in his bed, while Scout ran home in her costume, which kept her from seeing who had saved them. Ewell felt ridiculed in court and swore to take revenge on Atticus.

One night after a school Halloween party, Mr. It was in Jem’s bedroom that Scout first saw Boo hiding behind the bedroom door. Atticus convincingly showed that, due to an injury to his right arm, he could not have inflicted the bruises on Mayella’s face. After that, the children began finding single small treasures (such as bubblegum and a pocketwatch) in the hollow of a tree, left there by Boo. He was further able to prove that Mayella’s father was the rapist.

I thought that this was not only just a good book, but also a great learning experience for children and many other people. Afraid of the adult son Boo Radley,

whom they have never seen, they have been led to believe through stories of other children in town, that Boo is a vicious, horrifying looking monster. ”

Throughout the story, Scout and Jem both come to realize that difficulties happen in life, and that people can’t change who they are, what they look like, or what color their skin is; but to accept them as they are and for who they are. If people could learn to deal with the fact that

everyone is different and that people have their own opinion our world could be much happier and much more peaceful.

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