to kill a mocking bird by ilind farris

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a book about athis girl named Jean but she is called “Scout”. She lives with her older brother, Jem and her dad Atticus in the town of maycomb. and then one daywhen they meet a boy named Dill who liked visit the neighborhood every summer.but in that summer they would act out stories that they were told by a man in the house next door Boo. That summer those 3 tried to sneak onto the radley property but they got shot at by Nath Boo’s brother. Jem lost his pants on a fence and when he returns the holes were all mended up it, isnt that wierd?. During winter Scout and Jem had been colecting “gifts” that have been left for them in a knothole of a tree. Scout and Jem thought that Boo was leaving them gifts but Nathan plugs up the hole with cement. One night a fire starts in a neighbor’s house and without being seen as scout is standing outside someone put a blanket on Scout to keep her warm.she was positive that Boo did it, she tells Atticus about the ripped jeans and the gifts in the knothole. Later Atticus hes a lawyer decides to defend a black man named Tom. Friends at school and people on the street are discussed because in there town the white people are racist. tom was accused of raping a white woman. Even people in the family were teasing Scout so she beat up her cousin who was calling her dad a nigger-love. The Finch’s black cook Cal takes Jem and Scout to a black church, where they were appreciated for helping another black person. Atticus’s sister Alexandra came to stay with them, to teach Jem and Scout to behave and for her to teach Scout how to act more lady like. Alexandra slowly drives Jem and Scout crazy with her properness that they dont understand. Dill, who was supposed to live with his new step dad runs away and goes to the Finches house and hides under Scouts bed. Atticus was nice enough to agree to let Dill stay for awhile. toms trial began and he is put in the jail for the night and thats where a group of men went to kill him. Atticus stayed there that night to protect him. Scout,Jem and Dill show up and Scout persuades the men to leave.but during the actual trial in court the kids had to sit up in the black balconyway out of sight because Atticus said they couldnt come. As the trial went on the guy that actualy did do it stated lieing alot so he wouldnt get in trouble.but Atticus gave good evidence that would prove that the guy (bob) had attacked his daughter instead of tom. Even with the evidence Tom was still in trouble because he was black.after being in jail tom tried to escape from jail and was shot. Even with the bobs victory, Bob still has a grudge agenst Atticus and swore to get him back. On the way back from a play Scout and Jem were attacked in the dark by Bob. Bob broken Jem’s arm and knocked him out. butBoo came to the rescue and stopped Bob by stabbing him in the chest. Boo took Jem back to there house and disappears into his own house after a talk with the cops.
REFLECTION:In this book about the triumph of evil over good would be when Tom was accused of the rape on the little girl when it was her father beating her instead. Tom was accused and sentenced because he was a black person and black people always loose in a court case agenst a white man. Another triumph of evil over good was when a boy at Scout’s school was teasing her because her dad was defending a black person. Scout had to turn around and walk away from a fight with him. Also, in the book it said that Scouts teacher told her to stop listening to her brother and father’s way of teaching because they were wrong. The last example of a triumph of evil over good was when Dill had to run away from his new step-dad. In the book it said that Dill ran away because he was kept in the cellar by his step-dad. He was starved to death until a nearby farmer had heard him yelling for help. The farmer had to slip peas in through a vent to feed Dill. Then in the end Dill still had to go back to his evil step-dad.Some examples of the triumph of good over evil was when Boo Radley had stabbed Bob Ewell in the chest when he was attacking the kids. Another example of the triumph of good over evil was when Scout had backed up her father by hitting her cousin in the face. She was protecting her family. The last example of a triumph of good over evil was when Scout persuaded the group of men wanting to kill Tom Robinson to go away. Scout had recognized a Cunningham in the group and had asked a series of polite but effective questions like: “How’s your entailment gettin’ along?” or “Don’t you remember me Mr. Cunningham? I’m Jean Louise Finch. You brought us some hickory nuts one time, remember?” These questions had probably made Mr. Cunningham feel like there was nothing wrong with the innocent kids asking him innocent questions.The scourge of the social equality was the racial differences between the black people and the white people. In the book, black people were servants and slaves to the white people. The black people and the white people had very different privileges too. The white people got to sit in closer seats to a court trial while the black people had to sit in a far away balcony. The black people also had to go to church in an old building, without any pianos, organs, hymnbooks or church programs. On each of the seats was a small cardboard fan because it was hot and damp inside. there was also social inequality for mixed races. The people of a mixed race did not fit in with the whites or the blacks so they had to make another group by themselves. The social inequality was so bad in Maycomb, black people would lose a court case just because they were black. Even if there was excellent proof that the white person was guilty, the black person would still lose.


----ilind farris