where can i find the summary of a book about To Kill a Mockingbird?

Question

emergency, how can i find the summary about To Kill a Mockingbird book and it is for my book report which due next Wednesday.

Answer 1

Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer, in Maycomb county, Alabama. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Charles Baker Harris (Dill), who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer, and the trio acts out stories together. Eventually, Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their street called the Radley House. The house was owned by Mr. Radley, who had two sons, Nathan, who takes over the household after Mr. Radley's death, and Arthur (nicknamed Boo), who has lived there for years without venturing outside in daylight. Boo is infamous for the rumors that abound about him in Maycomb County as a result of his reclusiveness, the two most famous being that he once stabbed his father in the leg on an impulse, and that he sneaks out of the house every night, eats squirrels, cats and puppies and lurks outside of people's houses.

Scout goes to school for the first time that fall and detests it. It is on her first day in class that she is forced to come into contact with the children of two men important later on in the story: Mr. Walter Cunningham, the poorest man in town, and Mr. Bob Ewell, an infamous drunk, layabout and ne'er-do-well who has built a house on the town dump. She and Jem find gifts apparently left for them in a knothole of a tree on the Radley property. Dill returns the following summer, and he, Scout, and Jem begin to act out the story of Boo Radley. Atticus puts a stop to their antics, urging the children to try to see life from another person's perspective before making judgments. But on Dill's last night in Maycomb for the summer, the three sneak onto the Radley property, where Nathan Radley shoots at them. Jem loses his pants in the ensuing escape. When he returns for them, he finds them mended and hung over the fence. The next winter, Jem and Scout find presents in a tree left mysteriously for them. Presumably left by the mysterious Boo, Boo's brother Nathan Radley eventually plugs the knothole with cement claiming it was "diseased".

To the consternation of Maycomb's racist white community, Atticus agrees to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Because of Atticus's decision, Jem and Scout are subjected to abuse from other children, even when they celebrate Christmas at the family compound on Finch's Landing. Calpurnia, the Finches' black cook, takes them to the local black church, where the warm and close-knit community largely embraces the children.

Atticus's sister, Alexandra, comes to live with the Finches the next summer. Dill, who is supposed to live with his "new father" in another town who hasn't paid enough attention to him, runs away and comes to Maycomb. Scout finds him hiding under her bed. Tom Robinson's trial begins, and when the accused man is placed in the local jail, a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus faces the mob down the night before the trial. Jem, Dill, and Scout, who sneaked out of the house, soon join him. Scout recognizes one of the men as Walter Cunningham, father of one of her schoolmates, and her polite questioning about his son shames him into dispersing the mob.

At the trial itself, the children sit in the "colored balcony" with the town's black citizens. Atticus provides clear evidence that the accusers, Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob, are lying: in fact, Mayella propositioned Tom Robinson, was caught by her father, and then accused Tom of rape to cover her shame and guilt. Atticus provides impressive evidence that the marks on Mayella's face are from wounds that her father inflicted; upon discovering her with Tom, he called her a whore and beat her. Yet, despite the significant evidence pointing to Tom's innocence, the all-white jury convicts him. The innocent Tom later tries to escape from prison and is shot seventeen times, killing him. In the aftermath of the trial, Jem's faith in justice is badly shaken because of the unbelievable verdict, and he lapses into despondency and doubt as Tom Robinson's verdict was chosen by the jury clearly because he was black.

Despite the verdict, Bob Ewell feels that Atticus and the judge have made a fool out of him, and he vows revenge. He menaces Tom Robinson's widow, tries to break into the judge's house, spits in Atticus' face on a town street, and finally attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a Halloween pageant at their school. After a brief scuffle in the dark, in which Jem breaks his arm, Ewell disappears and Jem and Scout are discovered by an unnamed man and brought to their house. There, it is revealed that the man is, in fact, Boo Radley. The sheriff arrives with the news that Bob Ewell has died of a knife wound to the stomach; Atticus at first believes that Jem fatally stabbed Mr. Ewell in the struggle, but the sheriff insists that Ewell tripped over a tree root and fell on his own knife. It is evident (although unsaid) that Boo had actually intervened and killed Mr. Ewell to save the children; the sheriff wishes to protect the reclusive Boo, contrary to Atticus's belief, from the publicity certain to follow from the townspeople if they learned the truth of Boo's involvement. After sitting with Jem for a while, Scout is asked to walk Boo home. While standing on the Radley porch, Scout imagines many past events from Boo's perspective and feels sorry for him because she and Jem never gave him a chance, and never repaid him for the gifts that he had given them.

Walking home, she recalls all the events that have happened so far in the story (which have taken up about two or three years) and comes home to Atticus and a sedated Jem. While being tucked in, she remarks to Atticus that Boo Radley turned out to be a nice person; Atticus leaves her with the words: "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."


Just go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_A_Mockingbird#Plot_summary

Answer 2

This will require effort, a quality which you may not like seeing as you're looking for a summary of a book you probably should've read ages ago.

Anyways, go to SparkNotes.com and get the online guide for the book To Kill a Mockingbird.

Now, so this guide makes some kind of sense, go out and buy the book. These guides are NOT meant for solo reading. They are meant for companionship to the actual book. DON'T BE LAZY!

Answer 3

It looks like Marla gave you a quick overview. Try to read the book though. It is one of my favorites. There are things in the book you will pick up on that you won't find in the movie or any abbreviated notes. The book is a quick read, is interesting, and is a classic! Go for it!

Answer 4

Well you should read the book, but if you can't. Go to spark notes.com. This will give you summarys of books. If any1 asked, I didn't say anything! HE HE

Answer 5

One is available on-line at:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/

The movie starring Gregory Peck is an excellent, and won three Oscars in 1962--Best Actor, Best Art Direction, and Best Writing.

Good Luck....

Answer 6

It's a wonderful book and short just read it. You have time.

Answer 7

Look it up - lazy bones. When will this stop. You're just as capable of doing this as anyone foolish enough to do it for you. I ASSUME IT WAS AN ASSIGNMENT IN SCHOOL TO ACTUALLY READ THE BOOK!! Lazy, lazy, and anything but alone on Y!A!! 'Nuff said. G**Z!!

Answer 8

try sparknotes or cliffsnotes.com, then search for to kill a mockingbird

Answer 9

get the movie

Answer 10

you can go to cliffnotes.com.....