To kill a mockingbird -summary

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

 A Novel by Harper Lee

Characters of  This novel:-

• Atticus Finch
• Scout Finch
• Jem Finch
• Boo Radley
• Mayella Violet Ewell
• Dill Harris
• Robert Ewell
• Alexandar Hancock
• Maudie Atkinson
• Tom Robinson
• Calpurnia                            

                                       

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            SUMMARY:-

                                     The story is one of the most enduring in peoples memory those who read this so the story is told by the six-year-old boy Jean Louise Finch, this story takes place during three years (1933–35 A.D) of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County.

 Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, lives with her older brother Jeremy, whose nickname was Jem, and their widowed father Atticus who was a middle-aged lawyer. 

Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt every summer. These three children are terrified, yet fascinated by their neighbor, whose name was the reclusive Arthur "Boo" Radley. 


The adults of Maycomb are in doubt to talk about Boo, and few of them have seen him for many years. 

The children feed one another's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they muse about how to get him out of his house.

 After two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone is leaving them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. 


Several times so the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to these children, but, to their disappointment, he never appears in person.

Judge Taylor appoints Atticus tries to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. 

Although many of Maycomb's citizens reject, Atticus agrees to protect Tom to the best of his ability. 
Other children insult Jem and Scout for Atticus's activity, calling him a "nigger-lover". Scout is enticed to stand up for her father's honor by fighting, even though he has told her not to. And then One night, Atticus faces a group of men intent to hang Tom. This crisis is averted in an unexpected manner: 
Scout, Jem, and Dill show up, and Scout inadvertently breaks the mob mentality by recognizing and talking to a classmate's father, and the would-be lynchers disperse.

Atticus does not want Jem and Scout to be present at Tom Robinson's trial. No seat is available on the main floor, but the Rev. Sykes invites Jem, Scout, and Dill to watch from the colored balcony. Atticus demolish that Mayella and Bob Ewell are lying. It is revealed that Mayella made sexual advances toward Tom, subsequently resulting in her being beaten by her father. The townspeople refer to the Ewells as "white trash" who are not to be trusted, but the jury convicts Tom regardless. Jem's faith in justice is badly shaken. Atticus is hopeful that he can get the verdict overturned, but Tom is shot and killed while trying to escape from prison

In spite of Tom's opinion, Bob Ewell is embarrassed and then by the events of the trial, Atticus explaining that he "destroyed [Ewell's] last shred of credibility at that trial."^[12] Ewell vows revenge, spitting on Atticus' face and trying to break into the judge's house and menacing Tom Robinson's widow. And then finally he attacks Jem and Scout while they are walking home on a dark night after the school Halloween parade. Jem bears a broken arm in the struggle, but amid the confusion, someone comes to the children's saving. The strange man carries Jem home, where Scout realizes that he is Boo Radley.

Sheriff Tate arrives and discovers Ewell dead from a knife wound. Atticus thinks that Jem was answerable, but Tate is certain it was Boo. The judge clear-cut that to protect Boo's privacy, he will report that Ewell simply fell on his own knife during the attack. Boo asks Scout to walk him home. After she says goodbye to him at his front door, he disappears, never to be seen again by Scout. While standing on the Radley porch, Scout saw life from Boo's perspective.