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- Part One, Chapter 1
A summary of Part One, Chapter 1 in Harper Lee's To Kill a...
- Boo Radley
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- Bob Ewell
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- Calpurnia
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- Key Facts
Full Title To Kill a Mockingbird. Author Harper Lee. Type of...
- Scout Finch
Scout is a very unusual little girl, both in her own...
- Quick Quiz
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- Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson is the client whom Atticus must defend in...
- Themes
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas...
- Part One, Chapter 1
- Premise
- Trial
- Plot
Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, in the sleepy Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who has come to...
At the trial itself, the children sit in the colored balcony with the towns black citizens. Atticus provides clear evidence that the accusers, Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob, are lying: in fact, Mayella propositioned Tom Robinson, was caught by her father, and then accused Tom of rape to cover her shame and guilt. Atticus provides impressive evi...
Despite the verdict, Bob Ewell feels that Atticus and the judge have made a fool out of him, and he vows revenge. He menaces Tom Robinsons widow, tries to break into the judges house, and finally attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a Halloween party. Boo Radley intervenes, however, saving the children and stabbing Ewell fatally during the ...
- Harper Lee
- 1960
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seat of Maycomb County. Atticus’s office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama.
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To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of the young narrator’s passage from innocence to experience when her father confronts the racist justice system of the rural, Depression-era South. In witnessing the trial of Tom Robinson, a Black man unfairly accused of rape, Scout, the narrator, gains insight into her town, her family, and herself.
Told through the eyes of Scout Finch, you learn about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man unjustly accused of rape; and about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed. Written by: Harper Lee. Type of Work: novel.
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