To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. The story is told through the eyes of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, who is the age of six in the beginning of the tale. She tells the story in sequential order for the period of three summers.

Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch

She narrates the story describing her life between the ages of six and nine.  She is a tomboy and well educated, mainly due to her father, and she has an optimistic view of the world and people around her. She lives with her widowed father, older brother and their black cook.

Atticus Finch

Scout’s father is a lawyer in Maycomb and is descended from a well-respected local family. He has had to raise his children alone and has instilled in them a strong sense of morality and fair play.  During the 1930’s there were great problems between the races, and he was one of the few committed to attaining equality for both blacks and whites.  He agrees to defend a local black man charged with rape which exposing himself and his family to anger from the white community.

Jeremy Atticus ‘Jem’ Finch

Scout’s brother is four years her senior, but is her constant playmate at the beginning of the story.  Towards the end of the tale he moves into adolescence and is shaken badly by the evil and injustice, which he witnesses during the trial of Tom Robinson.

Tom Robinson

A black sharecropper who is accused of rape of a white woman, a member of the Ewell clan.

Calpurnia

The old family cook of the Finch family, she is a stern disciplinarian and provides a link between the white world of the children and her own black community.

Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley

A recluse who has never set foot outside his house for fifteen years who becomes a source of intrigue for the children, adding fuel to their fertile imaginations.

The Characters seem very real to me . The situations and lessons learn in the book ,seem as if I was there myself. Also the framing of the black man, shows the racism that I've read about in other books. Also what I've experienced myself before.

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