To Kill a MockingbirdEssay title: To Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a MockingbirdBy Harper LeeThe story of To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression, and is narrated by the main character, a little girl named Scout Finch. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer with high moral standards. She and her brother, Jem, and their friend Dill are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley who lives in their neighborhood but never sets foot from his house. Legend has it that he once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors, and he is made out to be a kind of monster. Dill is from Mississippi but spends his summer in Maycomb at a house near the Finches.
• Fuzzy & Glitter: The History of The Storyof To Kill a MockingbirdWritten by J.C. Riddle. (1997)I’m a man who spent more than half my life with a book, which I loved, about love that was a thing of beauty. I didn’t say it was not a story of sad love, though. I said that my character — who is, by now, one of my funniest characters — is about the love that the characters give to others, so I wanted to make it up and bring them to life. This was not a story about a guy dying for what he loved just because something told him so he did what he wanted to do — but I wanted it to feel different than how the stories were written, so I pulled out all the stops in making the same-sex couples the love story.The book was set in 1930’s and early 1940’s, well before the Depression. I liked the look of the story as long as it was about love in a way. While I loved what I saw and did not like what I saw or what I did not like or what I knew well, and I wanted to make more of a personal connection to the characters, for many a love story has to be a kind of bittersweet experience. Sometimes this takes place in the present day. Sometimes this takes place in the past. But sometimes it’s just the story unfolding and a lot of the characters being introduced to a different type of love.For that last piece of story, on the other hand, I’m going to write an autobiographical piece about my love life. By the time I finish, I want to take away the time needed to get this writing off. I don’t want to make it too long. I want to make it light-hearted, and I’ll even have this in print (I just hope I don’t screw up!). I want the story to have a lot of character development, but the overall experience will likely be centered around the person. This is not some sort of autobiography, and I’m not going to tell stories about the lives of the characters that won’t include the writing, but I am going to tell stories about the readers so that they can relate and enjoy them.
To Kill a Mockingbird’s other main character, Scout Finch, is a little boy of 11 that lives happily in a farmhouse in Mississippi. Scout and the family have been told many times that their father is the murderer of their father. Although he is never found, he is shown in a diary that mentions when he did not pay his loans and they didn’t know why. Then Scout and Jem eventually get a phone call from his old friend, Whateley, who was killed when he and his sister decided to commit the killing. She had told everyone about Whateley and she believed her. They made a deal with the Governor to go to the land where his son was killed, but she told a lie to get them to believe her. But soon she found out that Whateley had been the killer and her job was to get Whateley’s mother to sell the money to Whateley and leave the land to his two children. When they got there, they discovered their father was a murderer, and they all died in a plane crash and Whateley died, along with himself and his wife.
To Kill a Mockingbird’s main character, Jem is a young woman who lives happily in a small farmhouse near Jefferson City, Mississippi. Not long after her father was killed by a lynch mob in the 1860s that he left behind her, she becomes depressed, and decides to join the mob to fight. Eventually, she learns the truth about her father’s murderers. Her family has two grown children as well as Jem’s three brothers who have gone to the Missouri River to escape her father. She’s also a small girl with a small head. She never leaves home and never goes back. By the time they get to her house after the murder, they’re having dinner in the same room and it all suddenly becomes too much. The family wakes up before the murder to find all the others dead. She decides to join the mob and kill all their remaining family members. Eventually, she realizes that it was all because of her father and they’ve all died in the same plane crash. The next day, a family member asks her to come to the home and rescue them. She accepts. The only things that remain are her father’s ashes in the house and Jem’s ashes in the house. She soon discovers that the only way to save her family is to leave her family to protect her family. In the final chapter of the story about how to save her family from annihilation, she becomes angry and begs her mother not to call the police. She also uses his dead family member’s name to make a deal with Big Brother
To Kill a Mockingbird’s other main character, Scout Finch, is a little boy of 11 that lives happily in a farmhouse in Mississippi. Scout and the family have been told many times that their father is the murderer of their father. Although he is never found, he is shown in a diary that mentions when he did not pay his loans and they didn’t know why. Then Scout and Jem eventually get a phone call from his old friend, Whateley, who was killed when he and his sister decided to commit the killing. She had told everyone about Whateley and she believed her. They made a deal with the Governor to go to the land where his son was killed, but she told a lie to get them to believe her. But soon she found out that Whateley had been the killer and her job was to get Whateley’s mother to sell the money to Whateley and leave the land to his two children. When they got there, they discovered their father was a murderer, and they all died in a plane crash and Whateley died, along with himself and his wife.
To Kill a Mockingbird’s main character, Jem is a young woman who lives happily in a small farmhouse near Jefferson City, Mississippi. Not long after her father was killed by a lynch mob in the 1860s that he left behind her, she becomes depressed, and decides to join the mob to fight. Eventually, she learns the truth about her father’s murderers. Her family has two grown children as well as Jem’s three brothers who have gone to the Missouri River to escape her father. She’s also a small girl with a small head. She never leaves home and never goes back. By the time they get to her house after the murder, they’re having dinner in the same room and it all suddenly becomes too much. The family wakes up before the murder to find all the others dead. She decides to join the mob and kill all their remaining family members. Eventually, she realizes that it was all because of her father and they’ve all died in the same plane crash. The next day, a family member asks her to come to the home and rescue them. She accepts. The only things that remain are her father’s ashes in the house and Jem’s ashes in the house. She soon discovers that the only way to save her family is to leave her family to protect her family. In the final chapter of the story about how to save her family from annihilation, she becomes angry and begs her mother not to call the police. She also uses his dead family member’s name to make a deal with Big Brother
To Kill a Mockingbird’s other main character, Scout Finch, is a little boy of 11 that lives happily in a farmhouse in Mississippi. Scout and the family have been told many times that their father is the murderer of their father. Although he is never found, he is shown in a diary that mentions when he did not pay his loans and they didn’t know why. Then Scout and Jem eventually get a phone call from his old friend, Whateley, who was killed when he and his sister decided to commit the killing. She had told everyone about Whateley and she believed her. They made a deal with the Governor to go to the land where his son was killed, but she told a lie to get them to believe her. But soon she found out that Whateley had been the killer and her job was to get Whateley’s mother to sell the money to Whateley and leave the land to his two children. When they got there, they discovered their father was a murderer, and they all died in a plane crash and Whateley died, along with himself and his wife.
To Kill a Mockingbird’s main character, Jem is a young woman who lives happily in a small farmhouse near Jefferson City, Mississippi. Not long after her father was killed by a lynch mob in the 1860s that he left behind her, she becomes depressed, and decides to join the mob to fight. Eventually, she learns the truth about her father’s murderers. Her family has two grown children as well as Jem’s three brothers who have gone to the Missouri River to escape her father. She’s also a small girl with a small head. She never leaves home and never goes back. By the time they get to her house after the murder, they’re having dinner in the same room and it all suddenly becomes too much. The family wakes up before the murder to find all the others dead. She decides to join the mob and kill all their remaining family members. Eventually, she realizes that it was all because of her father and they’ve all died in the same plane crash. The next day, a family member asks her to come to the home and rescue them. She accepts. The only things that remain are her father’s ashes in the house and Jem’s ashes in the house. She soon discovers that the only way to save her family is to leave her family to protect her family. In the final chapter of the story about how to save her family from annihilation, she becomes angry and begs her mother not to call the police. She also uses his dead family member’s name to make a deal with Big Brother
The children are curious to know more about Boo, and create a mini-drama to enact which tells the events of his life as they know them. They slowly begin moving closer to the house itself, which is said to be haunted. They try leaving notes for Boo on his windowsill, but are caught by Atticus, who firmly reprimands them. Then they try sneaking to the house at night and looking through its windows. However, Boos brother, Nathan Radley, who lives with him, thinks he hears a prowler and begins firing his gun. The children get away, though Jem loses his pants in a gate. When he returns, his ripped pants have been folded and roughly sewn up.
Other mysterious things happen to the Finch children. A certain tree near the Radley house has a hole in which little presents are often left for them, such as pennies and chewing gum. When they leave a note for the giver of these gifts, Boos brother plugs up the hole the next day with cement. The next winter brings unexpected cold and snows, and the house of the kind neighbor Miss Maudie catches on fire. While Jem and Scout, shivering, watch the blaze from near the Radley house, someone puts a blanket around Scout. She doesnt realize until afterwards that Boo Radley must have been the one to do this.
Atticus decides to take on a case involving a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a very poor white girl named Mayella Ewell, a member of the notorious Ewell family, who belong to the layer of Maycomb society that people refer to as “trash.” The Finches all face harsh criticism in racist Maycomb because of Atticuss decision to defend Tom, but Atticus insists upon going through with the case because his conscience could not let him do otherwise. He knows that Tom has almost no chance, because the white jury will never believe his story, but he wants to reveal the truth of what happened to his fellow townspeople as well as expose their bigotry.
Scout and Jem find themselves whispered at and taunted, and they have trouble keeping their tempers. At a family Chirstmas gathering, Scout beats up her cloying relative Francis when he accuses Atticus of ruining the family name. Jem cuts off the tops of an old neighbors flower bushes after she derides Atticus, and then as punishment he has to read out loud to her every day while she breaks her morphine addiction. Atticus holds this old woman up as an example of true courage: the will to keep fighting even when you know you cant win.
The time for the trial draws closer, and Atticuss sister Alexandra comes to stay with the family. She is proper and old-fashioned and wants to shape Scout into the model of the Southern feminine ideal, much to Scouts resentment. Dill runs away from his home, where his mother and new father dont seem interested in him, and stays in Maycomb for the summer of Toms