Tale To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama in

Setting the 1930s during the Great Depression.

 Jean Louise Finch (Scout): the protagonist and narrator of the novel. Scout
comes to understand the goodness and the dark side of people.
 Jeremy Finch (Jem): Scout’s older brother who appears as a protective
figure. In his shadow, Scout’s youthful innocence is highlighted.
Characters  Atticus Finch: The proud, moral, and respected father, Scout’s father.
 Tom Robinson: The accused but seemingly innocent rapist who is shot dead
trying to escape prison.
 Arthur “Boo” Radley: The neighbor who is clouded and hidden in mystery

Man vs Man

Conflict This major conflict is the trial of Tom Robinson, an African American, who is
accused of raping Mayella Ewell the daughter of Bob Ewell. It is a long trial that
greatly affects the town and the main characters.

The jury found Tom guilty after several trials. Atticus was determined to convince
Tom a hope for the appeal. However, Tom was shot after he tried to escape from
the prison. Time passed by yet Scout was still thinking about Boo Radley. It was
the night of Halloween pageant when Jem and Scout were attacked by Bob Ewell.
Resolution The good thing was they were saved by a mysterious man, only to find out that it
was Boo. Scout learned that Boo is a gentle man as they arrived toward his home.
The adventure of Scout came to an end and she and her father Atticus were waiting
for Jem to wake up.

The moral of the story is that we should not judge base on the outward appearance
Moral of the person, personality, gender and most of all his or her race.
 To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in July 1960 and picked up by the Book-of-the-
Month Club and the Literary Guild. A condensed version of the story appeared in Reader's Digest magazine.

About the Author

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1959, she finished the manuscript
for her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. The youngest of four children, she grew up as a
tomboy in a small town. Her father was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature and also owned part of
the local newspaper. For most of Lee's life, her mother suffered from mental illness, rarely leaving the house. It is
believed that she may have had bipolar disorder.
Soon after, she helped fellow writer and friend Truman Capote compose an article for The New Yorker which
would evolve into his nonfiction masterpiece, In Cold Blood. In July 2015, Lee published her second novel, Go Set a
Watchman, which was written before To Kill a Mockingbird and portrays the later lives of the characters from her
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Lee died on February 19, 2016, at the age of 89.

Biographical Context
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, a sleepy small town similar in many
ways to Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Like Atticus Finch, the father of Scout, the narrator and
protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee’s father was a lawyer. Among Lee’s childhood friends was the future
novelist and essayist Truman Capote, from whom she drew inspiration for the character Dill. These personal details
notwithstanding, Lee maintains that To Kill a Mockingbird was intended to portray not her own childhood home but
rather a nonspecific Southern town. “People are people anywhere you put them,” she declared in a 1961 interview.
Yet the book’s setting and characters are not the only aspects of the story shaped by events that occurred during Lee’s
childhood. In 1931, when Lee was five, nine young black men were accused of raping two white women near
Scottsboro, Alabama. After a series of lengthy, highly publicized, and often bitter trials, five of the nine men were
sentenced to long prison terms. Many prominent lawyers and other American citizens saw the sentences as spurious
and motivated only by racial prejudice. It was also suspected that the women who had accused the men were lying,
and in appeal after appeal, their claims became more dubious. There can be little doubt that the Scottsboro Case, as
the trials of the nine men came to be called, served as a seed for the trial that stands at the heart of Lee’s novel.
Lee began To Kill a Mockingbird in the mid-1950s, after moving to New York to become a writer. She completed the
novel in 1957 and published it, with revisions, in 1960, just before the peak of the American civil rights movement.
Plot
The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the old town" of
Maycomb, Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise Finch (Scout), who lives with her
older brother Jeremy (Jem) and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem
and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each
summer. The three children are terrified, yet fascinated by their neighbor, the reclusive
Arthur "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant 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 fantasize 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 the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to the children, but, to their
disappointment, he never appears in person.

Biographical Context
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, a sleepy small town similar in many
ways to Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Like Atticus Finch, the father of Scout, the narrator and
protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee’s father was a lawyer. Among Lee’s childhood friends was the future
novelist and essayist Truman Capote, from whom she drew inspiration for the character Dill. These personal details
notwithstanding, Lee maintains that To Kill a Mockingbird was intended to portray not her own childhood home but
rather a nonspecific Southern town. “People are people anywhere you put them,” she declared in a 1961 interview.
Yet the book’s setting and characters are not the only aspects of the story shaped by events that occurred during Lee’s
childhood. In 1931, when Lee was five, nine young black men were accused of raping two white women near
Scottsboro, Alabama. After a series of lengthy, highly publicized, and often bitter trials, five of the nine men were
sentenced to long prison terms. Many prominent lawyers and other American citizens saw the sentences as spurious
and motivated only by racial prejudice. It was also suspected that the women who had accused the men were lying,
and in appeal after appeal, their claims became more dubious. There can be little doubt that the Scottsboro Case, as
the trials of the nine men came to be called, served as a seed for the trial that stands at the heart of Lee’s novel.
Lee began To Kill a Mockingbird in the mid-1950s, after moving to New York to become a writer. She completed the
novel in 1957 and published it, with revisions, in 1960, just before the peak of the American civil rights movement.