The story is set in a little town in Alabama, southern United States, called Maycomb City in the 1930s.
The main characters are Scout (Jean Louise Finch) and her brother Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch). The story is told from Scout’s perspective, although the book is so far about what she and her brother did together when they were little.
Scout and Jem live with their father Atticus in Maycomb, who is related to Simon Finch, the founder of Finch’s Landing in Maycomb. Atticus has two siblings. Alexandra Finch is his big sister, she has a grandson named Francis. Jack Finch is Atticus younger brother, who isn’s married nor have own children.
Jem and Scout meet Charles Baker Harris, a boy who is one year older than Scout and is called Dill, who is staying at his aunt, Miss Rachel Haverford, and will be spending his summers in Maycomb, next door to Jem and Scout. They become very good friends and plays roles from different books in Jem & Scout’s treehouse. One summer Jem decides to make a whole new play, about ”Boo” Radley, the neighbor across the street.
Boo Radleys real name is Arthur Radley and he lives in a huge house on Jem & Scout’s srteet with his brother Nathan Radley. Earlier their father and mother, Mr Radley and Mrs Radley, lived in the house as well, but they both died of age later in the book. The Radley’s house is well spoken of in the book and is brought up often.
The characters seem very true to life and I can really see them in front of me because of the way the author has described their behavior. They seem to be very happy and have a lot of imagination, which also contributes to the way I see them. It is hard to read their different dialect but it also makes them more authentic.
Scout is a young little girl who act very alike her brother, she wanted an air rifle for Christmas and she is not afraid of getting in a fight. Scout is the narrator and as I probably always will write when I am to describe characters in books, you get to know a lot of what is going on in her head. You do not really get a picture of how they look, but when Jem & Scout find figures carved in soap in a tree portraying them, you learn that Scout has bangs; ”The girl-doll wore bangs. So did I.” (p.66, line 31).
Jem is a daring boy who never says no to a bet. He cares a lot of his sister but seem to have his boundaries, for example when Scout started school he told her that she could not talk to him at school, and as time goes by in the book Jem says several times that Scout acts more like a girl and he does not seem to like it very much, therefore they move apart, with Dill between them.
Atticus seems like a very nice person and he loves to read. He is a lawyer and a very caring person. Atticus lost his wife, Jem and Scout’s mother, and after that he had to take care of the kids him self and it seems as if different people, in the town and in the Finch family, complains about the way Atticus raises Jem and Scout; in school, Scout’s teacher tells Scout that her father needs to stop teaching her how to read, when it is really their cook Calpurnia who teaches her, and on Christmas when Francis talks bad about Atticus (p.91-92).
I do not know what will happen next and I have not thought much about it either. I think I am a little stuck in the book, not much have happened at the same time as it has. I mean that I just read in the book waiting for something more to happen, something exiting. But I am guessing that whatever happens have something to do with The Radley’s, since they are brought up so many times.
I also read another book this summer, where they brought up ”To kill a mockingbird” and I noticed that I recognized some of the names in this book that was named in the other book. It also stood that a character in the book, who has only been mentioned once or twice, will die, so I already know that. I guess that is what I am waiting for.
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