![]() Scout and Jem are harassed and taunted by their peers, neighbors, and extended family. When the court appoints Atticus Finch as a lawyer to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. ![]() As kids do, they complain about school, adults confuse them, and they let their imaginations run wild when it comes to the Radley house, especially Arthur Radley, they believe the rumors about him and build a picture of him in their heads with such information. Scout, her brother, and their neighbor’s kid Dill, who lives in Mississippi, spend the summer having fun before school starts. Scout Finch lives with her older brother Jem, her widowed lawyer father Atticus, and their maid Calpurnia. The story is narrated by a six-year-old girl Scout, i.e., Jean Louise, and it takes place approximately over a span of three summers. It doesn’t seem realistic to give a plot summary here for this novel because I won’t be able to make it as brief. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story set in a small Southern American town, Maycomb, Alabama, and focuses on the Finches’. ![]() I had understood just the basic story of the novel, nothing more than that and this book is not at all superficial. I feel that I wasn’t aware enough or old enough to completely understand it, so I re-read the book this month. I read To Kill a Mockingbird when I was a teenager. ![]()
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