The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch who lives with her brother Jem and widowed father who is a lawyer in the Alabama town of Maycomb. The story covers three consecutive summers and at the start of the tale Scout is aged six. During the first summer they befriend a boy named Dill and the three children ... new stepfather. He, however, runs away from home to stay with his aunt in Maycomb for the rest of that summer. The trial of Tom Robinson arrives and when he is placed in the local jail a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus has taken up a position outside the jai...

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• Grade Level: High School

The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch who lives with her brother Jem and widowed father who is a lawyer in the Alabama town of Maycomb. The story covers three consecutive summers and at the start of the tale Scout is aged six. During the first summer they befriend a boy named Dill and the three children ... new stepfather. He, however, runs away from home to stay with his aunt in Maycomb for the rest of that summer. The trial of Tom Robinson arrives and when he is placed in the local jail a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus has taken up a position outside the jai...

• Word Count: 747
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Mockingbird summary Time: 1930 - 1933 Person: Scout 6 years old Jem 10 years old Atticus Finch lawyer attorney Chapter 1 Scout introduces her family and Maycomb history. First meeting with Dill and the Radley adventures begin. Chapter 2 Dill goes home and school starts. Scout is in trouble for explaining to the teacher why Walter cannot borrow ... away, is found undre Scout's bed. Chapter 15 Dill is allowed to stay for the summer Atticus is warned of trouble around the jail when Tom i inside. In her inocence, Scout saves the situatuin in front of the jail talking to Mr Cunningham about his e...

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... Jem and Scout to find. Tom Robinson manages to gain sympathy in the novel because he is accused for committing a crime he did not commit. While he was in the Maycomb county jail, a bunch of men came and wanted to kill Tom but Atticus was there to stop them from harming Tom. "They've gone, get some sleep, Tom. They won't bother ... ...

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... trial for example: because of the way that it was described to the reader, the reader could see the obvious wrongness of the verdict, yet hundreds of the townspeople in Maycomb couldn't see it so clearly. Scout's uncomplicated narration convinced the reader that the verdict couldn't possibly be guilty, as Scout indeed believed. This is shown in this passage, "I looked at ... influential moment that no doubt shows the impact of childish innocence on men was the way that Scout turned the mob away from attacking Atticus and Tom at the county jail. The way she peacefully ended the conflict ...

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