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To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee written in the bildungsroman and Southern Gothic genres and published in 1960. The novel is loosely based on the author’s observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred in her hometown when she was 10 years old. Lee has acknowledged that the character Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, who serves as the novel’s narrator, is based on herself. Lee’s novel addresses themes such as courage, racial injustice, the death of innocence, tragedy, and coming of age, set against a backdrop of life in the Deep South. One writer noted its impact in saying, “In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism.” It has proven to be not only an extraordinarily influential book, but a controversial one as well. To Kill a Mockingbird has been the target of various campaigns to have it removed from public classrooms. The book was successfully adapted for film by director Robert Mulligan with a screenplay by Horton Foote in 1962. To date, it is Lee’s only published novel.
Plot Summary: The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression, and is narrated by 6-year-old Scout Finch. Scout lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer in the fictional small town of Maycomb, Alabama. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who comes to stay with his Aunt Rachel for the summer. The three children are terrified and fascinated with a phantom neighbor named “Boo” Radley. Boo is a mysterious recluse, and the adults of Maycomb are hesitant to speak of him. Few have seen for many years. The children feed each other’s imaginations with rampant rumors about his grotesque appearance and his reasons for remaining a recluse, while dreaming of ways to get him to emerge from his house. Following various misadventures during two summers with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone is leaving them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. The phantom Boo makes several unseen appearances to the children displaying various gestures of affection. Scout and Jem appraise their small town neighbors through the eyes of children. With Atticus’ guidance not to judge others until they have walked around in that person’s skin, the children discover many instances of quiet strength and dignity in the most unlikely people. Atticus is assigned to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. To the consternation of many of Maycomb’s citizens, however, he intends to defend Tom to the best of his ability. Jem and Scout are then subjected to the taunts of “nigger-lover” from other children. Scout is tempted to fight to defend his honor by fighting them. However, Atticus has asked her not to fight in his defense. For his part, Atticus faces a group of men intending to lynch Tom, but escapes the situation with the unwitting help of Scout, Jem, and Dill. The time arrives for Tom Robinson’s trial, and Scout, Jem and Dill watch secretly from the colored balcony. Atticus shows that the accusers, Mayella Ewell and her father, the town drunk Bob Ewell, are lying. In fact, it becomes clear that the friendless Mayella was making sexual advances towards Tom, and was caught by her father. Despite the significant evidence pointing to Tom’s innocence, he is convicted. Jem’s faith in justice is badly shaken as is Atticus’ when a hopeless Tom is shot and killed while trying to escape from prison. Bob Ewell feels humiliated by the trial and vows revenge. He menaces Tom Robinson’s widow, tries to break into the judge’s house, and spits in Atticus’ face on a town street. Finally, he attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a Halloween pageant at their school. In the struggle, Jem’s arm is broken while trying to escape with Scout. In the darkness and confusion, someone has come to their rescue. The mysterious man carries Jem home, where Scout realizes it is the reclusive Boo Radley. Maycomb’s sheriff arrives and discovers that Bob Ewell has been killed. Sheriff Tate argues with Atticus about the prudence of giving Boo the credit for it. They eventually decide to let it be known that Ewell simply fell on his own knife, during the struggle with Jem and Scout. Boo asks Scout to walk him home, and after she says goodbye to him at his front door, he disappears again. While standing on the Radley porch, Scout imagines the events of the last three years from Boo’s perspective and regrets that they never repaid him for the gifts he had given them.
ISBN: ISBN-10: 0446310786 ISBN-13: 978-0446310789
Book Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Mockingbird-Harper-Lee/dp/0446310786

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