TO KILL A

MOCKINGBIRD
Book report by Ali Wilcox
Characters
Scout Finch
Atticus Finch
Jem Finch
Arthur Boo Radley
Bob Ewell
Charles Baker Dill Harris
Miss Maudie Atkinson
Calpurnia
Aunt Alexandra
Mayella Ewell
Tom Robinson
Setting
To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, an
imaginary district in southern Alabama. The time is the
early 1930s, the years of the Great Depression when
poverty and unemployment were widespread in the
United States.
Plot
InTo Kill a Mockingbird, authorHarper Leeuses
memorable characters to explorecivil
rightsandracismin the segregated Southern United
States of the 1930s. Told through the eyes ofScout
Finch, you learn about her fatherAtticus Finch, an
attorney who hopelessly strives to prove the innocence
of a black man unjustly accused of rape; and aboutBoo
Radley, a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and her
brother Jem from being killed.
Theme
Race
Justice and judgment
Youth
Morality & Ethics
Fear
Woman & Femininity
Family
Compassion & Forgiveness