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In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the setting is Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. The story is told by the narrator, Scout Finch. The side characters are Dill, Jem, Atticus, Tom Robinson, Aunt Alexandra, Calphurnia, and Boo Radley. The people of the town are extremely racist, prejudiced, sexist, and classist. They are in the time period of “The Great Depression”, so they are very poor on things like food and water. Scout is a young girl, tomboy, who is not very in touch with her feminine side as she never had a mother from a young age. Scout's father Atticus is an attorney, and is very wise and part of a small percentage of people who are not racist. Jem is Scout’s older brother, he is very level headed and wise for his age. The story starts by telling us that this is the story of how Jem broke his arm. …show more content…

Dubose, the trial between Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell, and when Jem and Scout got attacked and chased by Bob Ewell. Jem had to read to Mr. Dubose as a form of “punishment”. The action that caused the punishment was that Jem ruined her flowers by hitting them with a baton. The trial began when a white girl named Mayella accused a black man named Tom Robinson of raping her. Mayella and Bob Ewell become hard to trust throughout their testimony because both of their stories are not matching up, Mayella is playing the victim act, and she gets defensive about every question. Tom on the other hand is calm the whole time, his story stays the same, and he does not point fingers blamming Mayella. The case starts to appear as Bob Ewell was the one who really beat her up. Unfortunately, the result of the trial ends with Tom losing because of him being black and lack of evidence. Last, Bob Ewell was very upset with Atticus for “outing

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