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The book that I have chosen to read is, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this book, it is about a single parent, Atticus (Atticus Finch) with two children. Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch) and Scout (Jean Louise Finch). The protagonist is Scout. The story covers a span of three years, during which the main characters undergo significant changes. Not quite midway through the story, Scout and her brother Jem discover that their father is going to represent a black man by the name of Tom Robinson. He is doing this because the man is being accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Violet Ewell. Throughout the story, Scout and Jem were walking along the sidewalk back to their house, which so happened to be passing the Radley’s house. As they were passing by, they saw a tree with something in it. So, each time they saw something in that tree, they would take it. One day, they took so many things, that they decided to tell the person, whoever it was, thank you. So, they wrote a note and placed it inside of the tree, where they would find all of the objects. The next day, when Scout and Dill were passing by the tree to see their response. They saw Mr. Nathan Radley putting cement inside of the hole. Scout and Jem were overall sad and crying after they had found this out. The story took …show more content…

The novel starts out cheerful and positive about Maycomb, Alabama , but then as it goes on, Scout begins to see the cruel prejudice of the Maycomb people against blacks, and their disgust that Atticus is defending a black man in court. Scale and her brother begin to learn about how unfair society is, that a whole race of people can be mistreated because of the color of their skin, and some people are seen as less important because they don’t have much money. “ Yes suh. I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of em’—“ “You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?” Mr. Gilmer seemed ready to rise to the ceiling.”(Lee pg.

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