By Roseann K.
Scout and Jem Finch are the children of Atticus Finch a lawyer in the Great Depression. The Finch family lives in Alabama in the town of Maycomb. Everyone in Maycomb is prejudice and doesn't except people for who they are. Tom Robinson is a black man accused of raping a white women, Atticus takes the case to defend him because he believes that if he doesn't take the case he will not be able to hold his head up in town. One summer, Scout and Jem befriend a boy named Dill, who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer with is aunt. In the neighborhood there is a spooky house, eventually, Dill becomes infatuated with the spooky house on their street. The house is owned by Mr. Nathan Radley, whose brother, Arthur nicknamed Boo, has lived there for years without going outside. When Boo was younger he stabbed his father with scissors in the leg. Boo's father refused to send his son to an insane asylum and Boo needed to stay in his home until and was mentally stable to leave his home, that's why his name is Boo.
Scout goes to school for the first time that fall and ends up hating it. She and Jem find gifts apparently left for them in a knothole of a tree on the Radley's property, when they are walking home from school. Dill returns the following summer, and he, Scout, and Jem begin to act out the story of Boo Radley. Atticus puts a stop to their actions because he has sympathy for Boo and wants the kids to leave him alone. Atticus tries to show the children to see life from another person's perspective before making judgments. Dill's last night in Maycomb for the summer, the three sneak onto the Radley property. Nathan Radley shoots at them and Jem loses his pants in the escape. When he returns for them, he finds them hung over the fence, Jem is scared by this and doesn't tell Scout about it till later in the book.
The next winter, Jem and Scout find more presents in the tree, Nathan Radley eventually fills in the knothole with cement. Shortly after that a fire breaks out in another neighbor's house, during the fire someone slips a blanket on Scout's shoulders as she watches the scene of the fire. Convinced that Boo did it, Jem tells Atticus about the pants and the presents.
Atticus's sister, Alexandra, comes to live with the Finches the next summer. Dill, who is supposed to live with his new father in another town, runs away and goes to Maycomb. Tom Robinson's trial begins, and when the incent man is placed in the local jail a mob gathers together to kill him. Jem and Scout, who have sneaked out of the house, soon join him at the jail. Scout recognizes one of the men, and she talks to him about his son she goes to school with. The man realizes what he's doing is a bad decision and leaves with the mob.
At the trial, the children sit in the colored balcony with Maycomb's black citizens. Atticus provides evidence and Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob, lye to the judge and get their story mixed up. The jury knows that Tom Robinson is an innocent man but since he is black and it's his word is against a white man's word he guilty. Bob Ewell feels as though Atticus and the judge have made a fool out of him, and Bob wants revenge. Bob attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a Halloween party at their school. Boo Radley saves the children and stabs Bob during the struggle to save the kids. Boo carries Jem back to Atticus's house, the sheriff is goes to Atticus's house and in order to protect Boo, the sheriff insists that Ewell tripped over a tree root and fell on his own knife. Scout and Boo spend time with each other and then Boo disappears into the Radley house for the rest of his life.
After Scout relies what life is like for Boo, Auther has become a human being to Scout at last. Scout embraces her father's advice to understand people's life and life styles and she accepts Boo for who he is.
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