Atticus Finch To Kill A Mockingbird

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A girl called Scout (Jean Louise) Finch lives in a small town in Alabama during the '50s. Her father, Atticus, is a lawyer, and she has an older brother named Jem. The two kids with their friend Dill become really interested in the neighborhood "spook," a man named "Boo", really Arthur, Radley who appears never to leave his house. The children half-believe the silly tales that Boo haunts the neighborhood at night, feeding on squirrels, etc. As the kids grow up, they occasionally find little gifts in the knothole of an oak tree near their house. Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer, agrees to defend Tom Robinson, an upstanding black citizen accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Everyone in Maycomb (the town) knows that the Ewells are trash, and in the