He knows Tom is innocent, and also that he has almost no chance at being acquitted, because the white jury will never believe a black man over a white woman. But, Atticus insists on going through with the case because his conscience could not let him do otherwise. Not until she returns home and Atticus asks her where the blanket came from does she realize that Boo Radley must have put it around her while she was entranced by watching Miss Maudie, her favorite neighbor, and her burning house.Ītticus decides to take on a case involving a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a very poor white girl named Mayella Ewell, a member of the notorious Ewell family, who belong to the layer of Maycomb society that people refer to as "trash." The Finch family faces harsh criticism in the heavily racist Maycomb because of Atticus's decision to defend Tom. While Jem and Scout, shivering, watch the blaze from near the Radley house, someone puts a blanket around Scout without her realizing it. The next winter brings unexpected cold and snow, and Miss Maudie's house catches on fire. The children don't know where these gifts are coming from, and when they go to leave a note for the mystery giver, they find that Boo's brother has plugged up the hole with cement. A certain tree near the Radley house has a hole in which little presents are often left for them, such as pennies, chewing gum, and soap carved figures of a little boy and girl who bear a striking resemblance to Scout and Jem. Other mysterious things happen to the Finch children. When he returns in the middle of the night to get them back, they have been neatly folded and the tear from the fence roughly sewn up. The children run away, but Jem loses his pants in a fence. Boo's brother, Nathan Radley, who lives in the house, thinks he hears a prowler and fires his gun. Next, the children try sneaking over to the house at night and looking through its windows. They try leaving notes for Boo on his windowsill with a fishing pole, but are caught by Atticus, who firmly reprimands them for making fun of a sad man's life. Slowly, the children begin moving closer to the Radley house, which is said to be haunted. The children are curious to know more about Boo, and during one summer create a mini-drama they enact daily, which tells the events of his life as they know them. Dill is from Mississippi but spends his summer in Maycomb at a house near the Finch's. Legend has it that he once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors, and he is made out to be a kind of monster. Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley, who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer with high moral standards. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Depression, and is narrated by the main character, a little girl named Jean Louise "Scout" Finch.
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