To Kill a Mockingbird Book Report

To Kill a Mockingbird: By Harper Lee

The story begins with the main character, Scout Finch, explaining the history of her family and their town of Maycomb, Alabama. She lives with her father, a lawyer, and her brother Jem. Although they are living in the depression, they are better off than most other people in their town. During the summer, they meet Dill, a young boy who comes to live with one of the neighbors during the summer. Jem, Scout, and Dill spend their summers acting out plays and different scenarios in the neighborhood. During his time in Maycomb, Dill becomes infatuated with the story of Boo Radley, the neighborhood shut-in. Boo lives in the “Radley Place” with his brother, Nathan Radley, whom the kids always see walking to and from town.

Scout soon starts school and comes to find that it was not as amazing as she had expected. On one of their walks home from school, Scout and Jem find gum in a hole in Mr. Radley’s tree. They suspect that Boo Radley placed it there. They continue to find small treasures in the hole until Nathan Radley seals it up with cement. When Dill returns to Maycomb the following summer, the children continue to try and get a glance of Boo Radley. Atticus, Scout’s father, soon finds the children reenacting the story of Boo Radley, and he tries to explain that Boo has his own reasons for not wanting to leave his home. The children continue to play the game in secret, and they even go so far as to sneak onto the “Radley Place” property. Nathan Radley shoots at them, thinking that they are Negros, and Jem loses his pants while trying to flee. When he goes to retrieve his pants, he finds them folded neatly on the fence, as if he was expected. Another strange occurrence happens on the evening of a large fire in the neighbor’s house. Someone slipped a blanket over Scout while the children patiently waited for the fire to be extinguished. Sure that it was Boo Radley, Jem decides to tell Atticus about the gifts from the tree and his...