to kill a mockingbird
In the early 1930’s, a land of sheer bigotry existed in the small American county of Maycomb. Following the stock market crash of 1929, the civil rights ruling for black slaves was not welcomed openly by many in the American state of Alabama. Anger rose from people already in financial ruin. The 1930’s were a time of anger, hatred, discrimination and courage. In 1960, its story was told.1960 saw Alabama attorney at law, Harper Lee, develop one of her short stories into what was to become a literary classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch, attorney at law, is set to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is wrongly accused of the rape of a white lower-class woman, Mayella Ewell in the Maycomb county, while the town questions the principals of a father of two defending a nigger in Alabama. Narrated by Atticus’s six year old daughter, Jean Louise “scout” Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird runs through a portrayal of growing up in a sweet town where her and her brother Jeremy “Jem” Finch have their adventures with their dear friend dill who stands as obsessed on bringing out the town recluse Arthur ”Boo” Radley. Boo Radley is the Finch’s next-door neighbor who has not been seen by most of the town folk for years. Rumors spread thr
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Approximate Word count = 1030
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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