How To Write A Book Report On To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about a small family that lives in Maycomb, Alabama, during the depression. The family consists of a single father named Atticus, and two children, a boy named Jem, and a girl named Scout. Atticus is a lawyer in the town and during the summer while he is at work the children often play and go visit with their neighbors like Miss Maudie. One summer day Jem and Scout meet a young boy named Dill who is from Meridian, Jem and Scout soon became good friends with Dill. The group of children then decide to spend the rest of that summer trying to get the mysterious Boo Radley out of his house. The children do not succeed in their attempts to get Boo out of the house With the summer over Dill went back home to Meridian,

The book reads,”...the state legislature was called into emergency session and left us for two weeks”(Lee 98). The children begin getting teased at school about their father defending an African American named Tom Robinson who is accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Violet Ewell. With the court date approaching strange events occur in Maycomb such as a mad dog wandering the streets, and Miss Maudie’s house burning down,Mrs.Dubose harassing Jem and Scout. This slowly frustrates the two children, eventually Jem snaps and ruins Mrs.Dubose’s flower garden. With Jem and Scout having acted out already Atticus demands they stay at home with their Aunt Alexandra who would be visiting for the duration the case. Jem and Scout find a way into the courthouse to see the whole case by sitting in the colored section with the reverend they had previously met, after a few days the case is closed and Tom is voted guilty. Life resumes and Scout gets a part as a ham in a play, the play ends but Scout forgets her shoes and both her and Jem go to retrieve them soon realizing that someone is following them. The children run home but not before they run into a tree near their home and in the end find Jem out