\To Kill a Mocking Bird
To Kill a Mockingbird is pretty much about growing up during racial times in the 1930s in Alabama (Southern part of the United States). It covers three year where the main characters undergo many changes. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the fictitious town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small, everybody knows everybody kind of town, and every family has its own social status depending on which part of town they’re from, who their parents are, and how long their family have lived there.
Atticus raises his children by himself, due to having losing his wife, with the help of neighbors and a black housekeeper named Calpurnia. Scout and Jem almost automatically understand the difficulties and conspiracies of their neighborhood and town. The only neighbor who puzzles them is the mysterious Arthur Radley, AKA Boo Radley, who never comes outside. When Dill, a neighbor's nephew, starts spending summers in Maycomb, the three children begin on a quest where they are determined to lure Arthur outside.
Scout who is known as a tom boy who would rather hang out with boys rather than girls and is known to solve her problems with fighting. She tries to understand a world that tells her to behave like a lady, a brother who criticizes her for acting like a girl, and a father who accepts her just as she is. Scout hates school, gaining her most valuable education from experience and from her father.
About half way through the book Scout and Jem discover that their father is going to represent a black man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping and beating a white female. Because of this Scout and Jem have to put up with a lot of racist comments and insults because of their father’s part of the trial. During the trial Scout has a hard time trying not to get into fights with other children, which her Aunt Alexandra and