Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee - 1398 Words

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer in the southern Alabama town of Maycomb. They also have a black maid Calpurnia which allows the children to see that black people aren’t so different and thus they do not have the racial bias unlike most of the people in their town. The setting is also very important to note that around the Great Depression southern America was still heavily racist. During one of their many summers, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer and the three bond and play games together. Dill becomes interested in the ominous house that contains a mysterious†¦show more content†¦Scout and Jem’s innocence are slowly deteriorating as they ponder the reason why so many people hate black people so much even though they’re so similar to them. Tom Robinson’s trial begins and with high tensions of the defending of a nigger, Tom Robinson is approached by an angry mob with the intention of lynching him, until Scout saw a familiar face and reminded them of their humanity and showed them how inhumane they were by simply talking about Mr. Cunningham’s son, â€Å" Mr. Cunningham, whose face was equally impassive...’I’ll tell him you said hey, let’s clear out,’ he called.†(Lee 175) Thus Robinson’s life was spared from the mob. At the trial Jem and Scout watch from a â€Å"colored† balcony as Atticus provides clear and cut evidence that may prove Robinson innocent and that Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob were lying and trying to cover up something. It is thought that caught by her father. Mayella blamed Tom of raping her and in shame coupled by the forceful coercion of her father guiltily testified against him. Atticus displays incriminating evidence of the way her beatings meant that only Bob could h ave hit her since Tom had a cripple hand yet, sadly, despite the paramount amount of evidence directing towards Tom’s innocence, the all-white jury convicts him. Tom later tries to escape jail but is then shot down. Many mourn the loss