To Kill a Mockingbird Review

Our rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Summary- Jeremy(Jem) and Jean Louise Finch(better know as Scout live with there father Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Atticus is a lawyer and takes care of controversial cases that all the people in the town have their own opinions on. Scout narrates this story in a fun and witty way. Ther are two basic plots that consume the story.  The first plot starts with Scout, Jem, and Dill over the summer. Eventually, Dill becomes super obsessed with a house on their street called the Radley place that has a man named Arthur who they call Boo living in it who hasn't come out for years. Scout starts school for the first time and hates it then Jem and her find gifts in the knot of a tree on the Radley place. Dill returns the next summer and they begin to act out stories of Boo Radley, however, when Atticus finds out he immediately puts a stop to it urging the children not to make judgments of people without knowing them. However, on Dill's last night, they all sneak onto the Radley property and Nathan(Arther's brother shoots at them. Jem rips up an loses his pants in the process. He later finds them mended on the fence. That winter they continue to find presents in the knothole, but Nathan Radley eventually plugs the knothole with cement. Later convinced that the presents and mended pants are the doings of  Boo Radley Jem tells Atticus. The next main plot begins with Atticus agreeing to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. The children are subjected to bullying


Atticus's sister, Alexandra comes to live with them. Dill runs away to come to see the Finches. When Tom Robinson's trial starts, a mob gathers around the county jail to lynch the accused man. Atticus faces the mob on the night before the trial, and his children snuck out of the house to join him. On the day of the trial, Atticus provides solid evidence that makes it clear that his opponents are lying. Despite all the evidence proving the opponents are wrong, the all-white jury convicts him. Tom tries to escape from prison, and almost succeeds, but is then shot to death. Bob Ewell thinks Atticus was trying to make a fool out of him attacks Jem and Scout. Boo Radley saves them, and Bob Ewell falls on his knife and dies.

Reason for rating - We enjoyed the witty dialogue and interesting characters in To Kill a Mockingbird.  The plot had lots of twists. This book definitely deserves its place as a classic in American literature.

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