In the early 1930's, a land of sheer bigotry existed in the small American county of Maycomb. Following the stock market crash of 1929, the civil rights ruling for black slaves was not welcomed openly by many in the American state of Alabama. Anger rose from people already in financial ruin. The 1930's were a time of anger, hatred, discrimination and courage. In 1960, its story was told.
             1960 saw Alabama attorney at law, Harper Lee, develop one of her short stories into what was to become a literary classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
             Atticus Finch, attorney at law, is set to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is wrongly accused of the rape of a white lower-class woman, Mayella Ewell in the Maycomb county, while the town questions the principals of a father of two defending a nigger in Alabama.
             Narrated by Atticus's six year old daughter, Jean Louise "scout" Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird runs through a portrayal of growing up in a sweet town where her and her brother Jeremy "Jem" Finch have their adventures with their dear friend dill who stands as obsessed on bringing out the town recluse Arthur "Boo" Radley. Boo Radley is the Finch's next-door neighbor who has not been seen by most of the town folk for years. Rumors spread through the town that he is a grotesque skeleton who stabbed his father in the leg as a young boy and feeds on cats and peeps through windows under the cover of the moonlight. The idea of bringing out Boo only lasts for the duration of the first half of the book, however the content of the second half of scout's story is significantly less pleasant as she reveals a rotten, rural underside filled with social lies, ignorance and prejudice as Mayella's father, Bob Ewell comes into the picture. Desperately poor, Bob uses his welfare money to buy alcohol while his children go hungry. This section of the classic covers the Robinson case in which the seemi...