Thursday, March 27, 2008

To Kill a Mockingbird By STeVeN

To Kill A Mockingbird is an exciting and heartwarming story told by Jean Louis Finch also known as scout. The story begins in a small rural town in old Alabama during a time of segregation and financial losses in the stock market(Great Depression). Jean Louis Finch lives with her older brother Jeremy (Jem) and her dad Atticus. She also is visited every day except sundays by her black cook Calpurnia otherwise known as Cal. Anyways, Jean Louis tells us about how her brother broke his arm. She starts off explaining her summers there and one specific summer where they met a roudy and exaggerating kid named Dill. Now Dill had been coming to maycomb to live with his aunt every summer and had met jem and scout. They played together by doing a whole bunch of stuff but they especially liked acting out stories. One day as they were all walking down the road to their house, Dill asked "who lives there?" Jem and Scout turn around and tell Dill to met them at the finch house. So Jem and Scout tell Dill all the stories about the Radley house. Boo radley, who lived in that house, was said to be crazy. rumors say he stabbed his mother in the leg with scizzors and that he twiddles soap bars and never comes out of the house. Dill was so fascinated with these stories he suggested that they enact the stories told into a skit. Their fascination with Boo Radley ended up getting bigger and bigger until they decided to make contact with him. One day they wrote letter to him and attach it to a fishing pole. They carefully try to put it in his window while dill wacthes if anyone is coming. Suddenly Atticus appears around the corner and they get heavily reprimanded for their actions. He tells them they shouldnyt be bothering a man when all he wants to do is be left alone.

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