Scout (Jean Louise) Finch narrates the story, beginning with a

brief family history. Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary

journeyed from England to Alabama, establishing the family which

made its living from cotton on Simon"s homestead, Finch"s Landing.

The Civil War left the family only its land, which was the source

of family incomes until the twentieth century when Atticus Finch

(Scout"s father) and his brother Jack left the land for careers in

law and medicine. Atticus settled in Maycomb, the county seat of

Maycomb County, with a reasonably successful law practice about

twenty miles from Finch"s Landing, where his sister Alexandra

Scout describes Maycomb as a lethargic, hot, colorless, narrow-

minded town where she lives with her father, brother Jem (four

years older) and the family cook, Calpurnia. Scout"s mother had

When she was five, Scout and Jem found a new friend, Dill Harris

("Goin" on seven"), next door in Miss Rachel Haverford"s collard

patch. Dill was Miss Rachel"s nephew from Meridian, Mississippi,

never seen it before. Because of this unexpected cold weather,

hard by the Depression and were too proud to accept charity. For

a full stomach. Miss Caroline was from the city; Scout learned

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Approximate Word count = 5645
Approximate Pages = 23 (250 words per page double spaced)