Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee - 961 Words

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a story about a young girl named Louise â€Å"Scout† Finch and her older brother Jeremy (AKA Jem)’s life in the â€Å"tired old town† of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. The story starts off by Scout explaining the events that lead to her brother, Jem, breaking his arm. Scout and Jem lived with their father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb County, and their cook Calpurnia. Scout’s mother died when she was two, so she didn’t have much memory of her. One summer, when Scout was almost six-years-old and Jem almost ten, a boy, Charles â€Å"Dill† Baker Harris, comes to stay next door for the summer. All of the children become friends and have fun together by acting out different stories they had†¦show more content†¦After school one day, Scout is walking home and notices some tin-foil in the knothole of one of the Radley’s trees, she reaches in to find two pieces of chewing gum. On the last day of school, Jem and Scout found two pennies in the knothole of the same tree. After school ends for the year, Dill comes back for the summer. After becoming bored with all their normal games, Jem comes up with the game â€Å"Boo Radley,† where they all act out the Radley Family’s lives. Then one day the kids stuck a note on the Radley’s window using a fishing pole, asking Boo if he wanted to get ice cream with them. Atticus caught them and told Scout and Jem to leave the poor family alone, and they did, until Dill’s last day in Maycomb. On that day, Dill convinces the gang to sneak a peek into the Radley’s home. While trying to peer into the windows, Nathen Radley shoots at them and they run off. During the escape Jem lost his pants when they got caught on the fence. When Jem went to retrieve them the next day, they were mended and neatly hung over the fence. The next winter, Scout and Jem found more items in the knothole of the Radley’s tree. One day they went to the tree and the knothole was filled with cement. Soon after, one of the neighboring homes catches on fire. Jem starts to suspect that it was Boo that set the house on fire and tells his father everything about the gifts in the tree and his mended pants. Later,