Kill A Mockingbird, By Harper Lee - 2542 Words

1. In â€Å"To Kill a Mockingbird† by Harper Lee, Jean Louise (Scout) Finch—the narrator—lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed lawyer of a father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama. On one summer, the siblings befriend a boy named Charles Baker Harris (Dill) (who has visited for the summer), and the three soon begin to spark a fascination with the Radley Place—a cryptic and eerie house which is inhabited by a man named Arthur, although he is dubbed Boo—and begin to test Boo, even going into the yard, which leads Scout to believe that Boo is inhuman; for example, during the winter, Boo gives Scout a blanket without her noticing. Later, at the surprise to Maycomb’s racist community, Atticus agrees to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who†¦show more content†¦Ewell fatally. Afterwards, Boo carries a slightly wounded Jem back to Atticus’ residence, where two differing opinions rise—the town sheriff lies to protect Bo o, insisting that Ewell tripped and killed himself; on the contrary, Atticus wants to bring his son to trial, as he believes that he was the one who killed Ewell. The sheriff seems to get his way, and after sitting with Scout, who realizes that Boo is human, Boo returns once again to the Radley house. Following the incident, Scout has another epiphany—she realizes that it is important to practice kindness and understanding, as treating others with hatred, prejudice, and extreme bias would be worse than killing a mockingbird: â€Å"’Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens†¦.they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out†¦.That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’† (Lee 103). 1. Jean Louise (Scout) Finch: In the beginning of the story, Scout is introduced as a five-year-old child who soon begins to show uncommon traits for a girl at the time: she is mentally years ahead of her peers, having been taught to read before school; she worries about essential goodness and has no like for hypocrisy; she always acts on what she believes to be the best; in addition, for her time (deep south, pre- Civil Rights Movement), she is quite a tomboy. Like anyone, however, she does develop a bias towards Arthur