To Kill A Mockingbird During The Great Depression Summary

To Kill A Mockingbird place during the Great Depression in Maycomb, Alabama. It's narrated by a very smart six year old girl named Scout. Scout lives with her brother, Jem, and dad Atticus, who is a lawyer. Jem and Scout have a neighbor named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. They have another neighbor named Boo Radley, who lives alone and never comes outside. Even though there are rumours that Boo stabbed his own dad with scissors, the kids try to get Boo to come out of his house so they can meet. This never happens. Over the next 2 years, the kids find that someone leaves them gifts in this tree outside of Boo’s house. They learn later it was Boo leaving the gifts.

Atticus, Scout's dad, is assigned as a lawyer of a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of

Atticus takes the job on eagerly, but it's really the talk of the town, which is extremely prejudiced against African Americans. The kids at Jem and Scout’s school tease them about how their dad is defending a black man and Jem get’s into a fight one time defending his dad. One day Tom is almost stoned, but the kids are there to stop it from happening. When Tom’s trial takes place, Scout, Jem, and Dill watch in secret from the colored balcony because they weren’t supposed to come. Atticus says the prosecution is lying and that Tom could not have raped Mayella because his left side is paralyzed. Atticus tells the jury that Mayella was actually trying to mess around with Tom when her father, Bob Ewell, caught her in the act. Despite all the evidence of Tom's innocence, the all white jury convicts Tom and sends him to prison. Tom is later shot and killed while trying to escape from the