To Kill A Mockingbird

            To Kill a Mockingbird is a fictional novel by Harper Lee. It has 281 pages and is set in Maycomb, Alabama. The main character is "Scout" Finch.
             Scout lives in Maycomb Alabama with her father Atticus and her brother Jem. A friend of Jem and Scouts, Dill, interested in the scary house down the street called the Radley Place. Nathan Radley and his brother Arthur also known as Boo own the house. Boo stayed inside almost all his life. On their way to school Jem and Scout found gifts in a knothole on a tree on the Boos property. The following summer, Scout, Jem, and Dill began to act out the story of Boo Radley. They sneak onto the Radley property where the characters get shot at. They hurry to leave and on the way out Jem lost his pants. Jem returns to go look for them and he finds them hanging on the fence folded neatly. The next winter they found more presents in the same tree that Boo is leaving them. Atticus has a case coming up todefend Tom Robinson, a black man, who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman. Tom which is proven guilty and later trying to escape from prison and is shot dead. Bob Ewell, Mayell!.
             a's father tries to get back at all the people he feels made a fool out of him. He gets Scout and Jem when they are on their way home from a Halloween party; Boo saves them and accidentally kills Bob. The only thing that saves Scout is her Halloween costume.
             The main character is Jean Louise " Scout" Finch. She lives with Calpurnia; the black cook, her father, and her brother. She is a tomboy who had faith in the people of her town. She is tested against her prejudice when her father defends Tom Robinson. She learns to notice the goodness in people and tries to block out the evil.
             The best passage in this book was, "Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said.