To Kill a Mocking Bird Summary

To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by, a girl named Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Her father, Attics Finch, is a respected lawyer. Scout, her brother Jam, and their friend Dill are interested by the local rumors about a man named Boo Bradley, who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house. The children are curious to know more about Boo; the children begin moving closer to the Radley house, which is said to be haunted. the children try sneaking over to the house at night and looking through its windows. Boo's brother, Nathan Bradley, who lives in the house, thinks he hears a prowler and firing his gun. The children run away, but Jam loses his pants in a fence. When he returns in the middle of the night to get them back, they have been neatly folded and the tear from the fence roughly sewn up. A certain tree near the Bradley house has a hole in which little presents are often left for them, such as pennies, chewing gum, and soap carved figures of a little boy and girl who bear who look like Scout and Jam. They want to know who these gifts are coming from so they leave a note for the mystery giver, they find that Boo's brother has plugged up the hole with cement...Atticus decides to take on a case involving a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a white girl named Magellan Jewell, The Finch family faces hard criticism because of Atticism’s decision to defend Tom. But, Attics insists on going through with the case. He knows Tom is innocent, and also that he has almost no chance at being acquitted, because the white jury will never believe a black man over a white woman. Despite this, Attics wants to reveal the truth. The time for the trial draws closer, and Atticism’s sister Alexandra comes to stay with the family. Dill runs away from his home, where his mother and new father don't seem interested in him, and stays in Macomb for the summer of Tom's trial. The night before the trial, Tom is moved into the county jail, and Attics, fearing a possible attack, stands guard outside the jail door all night. A group of men arrive ready to cause some violence to Tom, and threaten Attics in the process., Scout runs out and speaks to the men, her kindness brings the crowd out of their insanity , and they leave. According to the Wells, Magellan asked Tom to do some work for her while her father was out, and Tom came into their house and forcibly