To Kill a Mockingbird is a fictional story about racism in the 1930s. The story revolves around the Finch family. The father, Atticus, is a lawyer and has two kids. Scout is a young girl and Jem is the older brother. The story is told through Scott’s perspective and she didn’t understand many things which created an atmosphere of innocence. The first third of the book is spent teaching about the Finch’s and Maycomb County. As the story goes on, Atticus has to defend a black man from rape charges. The Finch family is honored and despised by this action. In this section, it shows the true impacts of racism in the South. The final section of the book has a revenge plot which results in the antagonist, Mr. Ewell, attacking Jem and Scott but instead gets him killed.
One of the important minor conflicts that helped build to the climax of the story was the relationship with Boo Radley, who is mentally handicapped. Boo is a mystery because he is never let outside his house. The Finch children and their friend
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At the beginning, the Cunningham’s appear to be typical anti-negro white family. The first confrontation is between Scout and a young Cunningham at school in which she calls her a *beep*-lover. In the second confrontation Mr. Cunningham is leading a group of men to lynch the black man accused of rape, Tom Robinson. Scout recognizes him and is able to convince the men to leave. Finally, it was told that the only juror that was for Tom Robinson was also a Cunningham. In the story the family goes from hating Negroes to becoming very sympathetic. There is this complicated relationship in many cases where the people show an outward appearance of looking down at the Negroes but are really much more sympathetic. This was shown when Atticus Finch was reelected to be a Representative to the State House after he had defended Tom