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To Kill a Mockingbird Book Report

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“To Kill A Mockingbird” was a groundbreaking novel composed by Harper Lee and published in America in 1960. The novel was one of the very first of it’s kind to deal with the subjects of racial inequality and rape and is still widely read in schools to this day. Harper Lee composed the book based on an event that occurred in her small, southern town when she was a child in the ’30s. As such, the book is seen as remaining in the Southern Gothic genre.

The story of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is that of 6-year-old Scout Finch, a little lady living in the village of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression of the ’30s. Scout lives with her older bro, Jem, and their widowed legal representative dad, Atticus. In the summer of 1933, Scout and her sibling befriend a kid called Dill who stays summer seasons in Maycomb to be with his aunt. As the children play, Dill quickly becomes captivated with an old, creepy home on their street. Scout and Jem inform him that it’s your home of a man called Arthur Radley (nicknamed Boo), who lives as a shut-in. The three children begin to inform creative stories about Boo Radley and begin getting presents from him the knothole of a tree in his yard.

Meanwhile, Scout and Jem’s daddy, Atticus is hired to protect a black male, Tom Robinson who has been implicated in raping a white woman. Most of the white individuals of Maycomb are revolted by Atticus’ approval of the case and take their anger out on him and his children by shunning them and screaming abuse in the street. Atticus discovers he must face down a mob of his previous good friends and neighbors to safeguard the rights of an innocent man and teach his 2 kids an important lesson while doing so.