How To Write A Book Report On To Kill A Mockingbird

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in the sleepy town of Maycomb, Alabama during the early 1930’s. The narrator, a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch “lived on the main residential street in town,” with her brother Jem, their father Atticus and their cook Calpurnia. One summer while playing in their backyard the siblings encountered a seven year old boy they would soon know as Charles Baker “Dill” Harris. As the children spend more time together Dill began to grow obsessed with the local rumor of the “malevolent phantom,” that lived in the neighborhood. The children grew increasingly preoccupied with the desire of getting a glance at their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. On their walk home from school one day, Scout and Jem had found odd items left in the knot hole of a certain tree. They had hesitated on taking the items at first but after a while, they began to believe they were left there specifically for them and it had become routine to pick up the items on their walks. Naturally the children were outraged to find out that Mr. Nathan Radley, Boo’s older brother had filled up their knot hole with cement on account that the “Tree’s dying,”.

The Finches faced harsh criticism from Maycomb’s racist community for Atticus’s involvement within the case. Though Tom was charged guilty, the people still had great respect in Atticus because it had taken the jury an excruciatingly long time to decide on the verdict. Normally it would have taken them mere minutes as the case had been between a black man’s words and that of a white family’s. Although Tom was convicted guilty Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father still held a grudge against Atticus and everyone that was involved in the trial because he had felt