To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee takes place in Maycomb county, Alabama in the 1930's. In a time when black people did not have the same rights as the white people. The story is about two people but the most important part is about a black man whose name is Tom Robinson he is on trial for raping a ninteen year old girl whose name is Mayella Ewell. The other person in the story is a man who is known to the other characters as Boo Radley but his real name is Arthur Radley. In the story Boo is pestered by three kids whose names are Jem Finch , Jean Louse Finch or Scout and Dill Harris.
Boo Radley was locked in his house after getting into trouble for being involved with the wrong crowd then his father took him in their house and he has not left it since. "Boo was sitting in the livingroom cutting some items from the Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scrape book. His father entered the room.As Mr. Radley passed, Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg,pulled them out wiped them onhis pants,and resumed his activities. Mr. Radley ran screaming into the street that Arthur (Boo) was Killing them all, but when the sheriff arrived he found Boo still sitting in the livingroom, cutting up the Tribune. He was thirty-three old then." (page # 11) Since then he has never left the house during the day. .
Tom Robinson is the black man Atticus, the father of Jem and Scout, is defending. Tom was twenty-five years of age, he was married with three children and his left hand was useless from a accident he had when he was twelve when his hand was caught in a cotton gin and tore up all his ligaments. Tom was accused of raping Mayella Ewell and beating her unconcious mostly on the right side of her face. While Atticus was questioning Mr.Ewell he made it clear that Tom could not have done that to Mayella. "If her right eye was blacked and she was beaten mostly on the ride side of the face, it would tend to show that a left handed person did it.