In the town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the middle of the Great Depression, six-year-old Scout Finch lives with her older brother Jem, and her widowed father, Atticus. Atticus is a lawyer, and makes enough to keep the family comfortably out of poverty, but he works long days. He has a family's black cook, Calpurnia, to help raise the kids.
Scout and Jem spend much of their time creating and acting out fantasies. One year a boy named Dill comes to spend the summer with his aunt, who is the Finches' neighbor. The three children become friends, and, pushed by Dill's wild imagination, soon become obsessed with a nearby house. A man named Nathan Radley owns the house, but it is his reclusive brother, Arthur (Boo) Radley, who interests and terrifies the children. On a dare, Jem actually runs up and touches the Radley house, and Scout is sure she sees someone watching them from inside behind a curtain.
That year, Atticus is appointed by the court to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a poor, white man named Bob Ewell. And you must read the rest to know what happens
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