To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a suspenseful and opinion changing novel. How the characters see what is happening opens up a different perspective in what their lives were really like.
Jean Louis Finch, also known as Scout, is a seven year old who is daring and adventurous who lives with her older brother, Jem, and her widowed father Atticus. They live in a small Alabama town called Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a lawyer so his family is better off than others. Scout and Jem befriend a boy who was staying the summer in Maycomb. His name is Dill. Dill became fascinated with a house on Scout street. This house belonged to Mr. Nathan Radley and his brother, Arthur lived there. The trio called him Boo. Scout, Jem, Dill, and Atticus struggle through a case that changed their perspective on everything. People are accused and people are forgiven.
After a year of school, mobs, difficult legal cases and getting shot at, Jem and Scout’s aunt Alexandra comes to live with them. She is trying to give Scout a female example because Scout is become to much of a boy. In Atticus’s case he is working with an African American man named Tom Robinson. He is accused of
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When I went camping I brought my book with me. At first the book was really boring but as the days went on and the more that I read To Kill a Mockingbird became much more interesting. Probably my favorite part of the book was when the trial started. I really love how the book portrayed the courtroom through Scout eyes. Right about when I understood what the title meant I started to become more interested in the book it it's characters. I was really confused at the beginning. I didn't know who was who where they were or what they were doing. I had to look up a synopsis of the book because I had no idea what was going