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To Kill a Mocking Bird Summary

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To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by, a girl named Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Her father, Attics Finch, is a respected lawyer. Scout, her brother Jam, and their friend Dill are interested by the local rumors about a man named Boo Bradley, who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house. The children are curious to know more about Boo; the children begin moving closer to the Radley house, which is said to be haunted. the children try sneaking over to the house at night and looking through its windows. Boo's brother, Nathan Bradley, who lives in the house, thinks he hears a prowler and firing his gun. The children run away, but Jam loses his pants in a fence. When he returns in the middle of the night to get them back, they have been neatly folded and the tear from the fence roughly sewn up. A certain tree near the Bradley house has a hole in which little presents are often left for them, such as pennies, chewing gum, and soap carved figures of a little boy and girl who bear who look like Scout and Jam. They want to know who these gifts are coming from so they leave a note for the mystery giver, they find that Boo's brother has plugged up the hole with cement...Atticus decides to take on a case involving a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a white girl named Magellan Jewell, The Finch family faces hard criticism because of Atticism’s decision to defend Tom. But, Attics insists on going

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