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To Kill a Mockingbird Book Report

The main characters in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird are Jem, Scout, and Atticus Finch. Jem and Scout are brother and sister, Atticus is their father and Maycomb's best lawyer . Jem and Scout spend their summers playing with their summer time friend Dill. Jem, Scout, and Dill spend most of their summer trying to get Boo Radley who is suspected to be a crazy man to come out of his home. As their summers pass their hopes of Boo Radley coming out of his home slowly fade away. One summer Atticus is defending a black man who is accused of raping a white teenager. The small town that they live in Maycomb is buzzing and giving the whole Finch family a hard time about the trial. Atticus believes the black man is innocent, and that the girls father was the one to actually beat her up. The black man is convicted guilty. The girls father tells Atticus that he will get him back for making a mockery of him in court. While the black man is in prison he tries to escape and he gets shot to death. A while past and Scout is in a play where she has to be a ham. On the way home from the play Jem and Scout are attacked by a man. Jem is knocked unconscious and Scout cannot

see a thing because she is trapped in the ham costume. Someone picks up Jem and takes him back home , and Scout gets up and follows. When she gets there her aunt calls the police and they come and start asking her questions about what happened and she doesn't quite know what happened. She goes into Jem's room to see what happened to him and the police man asks her how they got home and who had stopped the attacker. After a while of thinking she points to a stranger across the room and says, "Hello Boo," and thanks him for everything. The police find out that it is the girls father who was the attacker and the rule that he feel on his knife and caused his own death. Scout is happy she meet Boo but never sees him again. "If only Jem was awake."

Something I found interesting about this book was how a whole town that respects

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