To Kill A Mockingbird 3
To Kill A Mockingbird is a story about racism, ignorance, fear, intolerance, hate, injustice, learning, heroism, and growing up. It is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States.
The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus's sister), and (Jem) Jeremy (The older of Atticus's two children), Scout (The younger of the two. She also try’s to be a boy by doing boy things), and you can't forget their black maid Calpurnia. Miss Rachael is Dill's aunt that lives in Maycomb. Dill is friends with ...
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prefer you shoot tin cans, but I know you'll wanna shoot birds, if you can hit 'em. Shoot all the Blue Jays you want, but never shoot a Mockingbird. All they do for us is sing their hearts out for us. Remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird". The Mockingbirds in this story are Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Mr. Radley is a mystery man and scary. Tom Robinson is Black and wrongly accused of crime.
To Kill A Mockingbird is told through Scout. Scout is much like a boy, 8 years old, and funny. Scout hated to be called a girl and she wore britches. She knew how to read before she started her school, “where most of the first grade had failed last year". She was good at fighting with boys. She loved her father Atticus and brother Jem. Not so much Calpurnia, who always orders her around. She is ready to beat up people to get them into their senses. Jem is near his teens. His mother died when he was young, so he misses her and tells his younger sister about her. His only friend is ...
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feet tall. He dined on raw squirrels and cats. He had a scar on hiss face. His teeth were yellow and rotten, and eyes popped out. And he drooled most of the time." Jem also figured that Mr. Radley kept Boo chained to the bed most of the time, or he was dead and stuck into the chimney. The truth is that Jem had never seen Boo Radley, but receives a lot of gifts from him not knowing that Boo Radley gave them. They ran past his house.
Tom Robinson is a poor, black man who has a wife and three children, just trying to make money for his family, although people don't have much use of him since he can only us his right hand. His left arm was caught in a cotton gin. It tore all his ...
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