What is "To Kill A Mockingbird" about?

Question

I dont want you to give anything away but I just need to know the basis of it. I dont want to read it until the summer I dont know why it just feels like the kind of book you reda on the beach. LoL

Answer 1

To kill a mockingbird is based largely in the summer so maybe. But the book is about these two kids who basically are forced to grow up. It deals with serious issues such as racism and bigotry. A local black man is falsely charged with rape. Everyone it town knows this. The children, who can see that he's innocent, have trouble coming to grips with what is going on. They are forced to grow up and understand the ugliness of their surroundings.

Its a great book but kind of depressing and sad. So, idk.

Answer 2

It's the kind of book you read alone in your house. Take the phone off the hook (whatever), make some tea.

It's a story about racism in a small town.

Answer 3

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead.

Through the eyes of "Scout," a feisty six-year-old tomboy, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD carries us on an odyssey through the fires of prejudice and injustice in 1932 Alabama. Presenting her tale first as a sweetly lulling reminiscence of events from her childhood, the narrator draws us near with stories of daring neighborhood exploits by she, her brother "Jem," and their friend "Dill." Peopled with a cast of eccentrics, Maycomb ("a tired and sleepy town") finds itself the venue of the trial of Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of raping an ignorant white woman. Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem's widowed father and a deeply principled man, is appointed to defend Tom for whom a guilty verdict from an all-white jury is a foregone conclusion. Juxtaposed against the story of the trial is the children's hit and run relationship with Boo Radley, a shut-in who the children and Dill's Aunt Stephanie suspect of insanity and who no one has seen in recent history. Cigar-box treasures, found in the knot hole of a tree near the ramshackle Radley house, temper the children's judgment of Boo. "You never know someone," Atticus tells Scout, "until you step inside their skin and walk around a little." But fear keeps them at a distance until one night, in streetlight and shadows, the children confront an evil born of ignorance and blind hatred and must somehow find their way home.

The place: a small town in the south of the United States. The time: the early 20th century. A black man is accused of raping a woman, and an idealistic lawyer gets to defend him. We start watching the reasons that make his defense far from easy; and that's mostly because nobody in this town seems determined to believe in the guiltlessness of an accused *****.

Answer 4

While it is mostly about race, it is also about judging people in a larger context. What are judgements based on, etc. The reader also learns about Scout's neighbor's-- that is an interesting subplot. Excellent book.

Answer 5

great book!! i read it a couple of months ago, and I loved it!! it's from the point of view of a girl (she's like 12) and her dad is an attorney, and he gets a case where race is an issue, and the book is a story of overcoming prejudices and of growing up. i hope you enjoy it!!

Answer 6

it's a great book about this little girl named scout who tells the events leading to a court case about a black man acussed of raping a white women

Answer 7

It is about justice vs. racism in a rural county in Alabama in the USA.

Answer 8

prejudice hate and intolerance

Answer 9

It's about killing a mockingbird.

Answer 10

it's about racism...prejudice.. ^_^