A Book Report For To Kill A Mockingbird

Ali Khan

Ms. Young

English 1 Pre-AP, Period 2

13th January 2017

Book Report: To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about the coming of age by Harper Lee, in which she narrates the story through Scout Finch who describes her childhood. The novel begins with Scout living with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, in Alabama’s town of Maycomb during the time of the Great Depression, Atticus is a lawyer and the Finch family are rich in comparison to others. Jem and Scout befriend Dill, who came to Maycomb for multiple summers. They become fascinated with a house on their street called the Radley Place and the mysterious and spooky character of Boo Radley. Scout goes to school for the first time and hates it. Scout

Tom Robinson’s trial began, when he is placed in the local jail, a mob tries to take him. Atticus decides to face the mob. Jem and Scout sneaked out of the house to join him. Scout recognize, Mr. Cunningham and questioning him about his son shaming him into dismissing the mob. At the trial, Atticus provides evidence that the accusers, Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob, are lying to cover her shame and guilt. Despite the evidence pointing to Tom’s innocence, the jury convicts him. The innocent Tom later tries to escape from prison and is shot dead. Bob Ewell feels that Atticus and the judge have made a mockery out of him, and vowed revenge. He menaces Tom Robinson’s widow, tries to break into judge’s house, and attacks Jem and Scout as they walked home from a Halloween party through the woods. Boo Radley intervenes to save the children and stabs Ewell during the fight. The author begins the story with the idea of innocence with Scout not knowing the great injustices and hatred in her society. Then the loss of innocence having seen the worst and had face to face experiences with it. Finishing with

Don’t judge people from their appearance as they have been through certain circumstances, to be nice to other, and not to kill anyone, especially to do it just because if their color. The story is about coming of age, doing the right thing, courage, the fight against social injustices and the importance of understanding others. Scout has a conflict through the story with herself. does not want to grow up to be a young lady. She is raised by Atticus who tries to teach her good moral values, but she goes against his saying to have fun and mischief. Toward the end of the book however, Scout finally begins to become little lady. With the direction of Miss Maudie, Scout joins her Aunt Alexandra in a lady's tea party. She wears her best dress and acts politely, even though she sees how rude and hypocritical the ladies