2IB English 01-09-09 Summary of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ The novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ written by Harper Lee, published in 1960’s, takes place in a small town of Alabama (‘invented’ by the author) called Maycomb. The entire novel during the Great Depression and the reader is introduced at the beginning of the novel, to the narrator who is a six-year-old ‘tom-boy’ girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. She lives in Maycomb with her older brother Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch (who is three years older than she is), and her widowed father Atticus Finch. Together, the three of them are the ‘well-off’ Finch family of the neighborhood. Scout and Jem friend name Dill who is visiting his aunt for the summer. Together, their imaginations go wild about a neighboring house owned by Nathan Radley. His brother Arthur “Boo” Radley, lives in the haunted looking house and never steps a foot outside. Boo becomes a very important part of Scouts and Jems lives and becomes the main character in their imagination. Boos is also an important “mockingbird” figure in the novel. Bob Ewell feels that he has been humiliated at trial and vows revenge on Atticus. Bob attacks Scout and Jem on their way home from a Halloween party, but all of them are surprised when Boo comes to the childrens rescue and accidently kills Bob Ewell. When Bob had attacked the children, he managed to break Jems arm, and Boo then carries Jem home. The sheriff, Hack Tate, argues with Atticus about the crisis and what could lead to another court case with both Boo Radley and Jem. Understanding the situation, Heck decides to lie in their defense and say that Bob trip and fell on his own knife. Scout and Jem are finally able to meet their mystery character in person. Boo then asks Scout to walk him home. Standing on the Radleys Porch, Scout is able to see things in others perspectives, and tell of what she had learnt from all that is happened. There are two sides to people, there is a society that over rules, there...