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Summary: Scout lives with her brother Jem and her father Atticus, who is widowed. They live in Maycomb, Alabama that is suffering in the great depression. In the summer the two siblings befriend a kid named Dill. Dill starts to become interested in the Radley place where Arthur or boo lives in, and never comes out of. One day Scout and Jem skip school and find presents for them in a knothole on the Radley house. The next summer Dill comes back and the three of them sneak onto the Radley property. Nathan Radley starts shooting at them for sneaking on. Jem looses his pants and when he goes back he finds them fixed and hung over the fence. Over the next winter Jem and scout continue to find presents in the knothole possibly from Boo. After a while Nathan clogged the hole with cement. Atticus agrees to defend a black man who was accused of raping a white girl whose name is Tom Robinson. Because their father agree to that Jem and Scout get abused by the kids at school. The next summer Dill is supposed to live with his new father but he runs away to Maycomb. Tom Robinsons trial starts and he placed in the local jail were he was lynched by a mob of men. Atticus stands up to them and Jem and Scout sneak out and join their father. At the trial Atticus provides clear evidance that shows that Mayella Ewell (the girl who "got" rapped) and her father were lying. Mayella propositioned that Tom Robinson was caught by her father and then accused him of rape to cover the shame and guilt. Atticus also provides evidance that Mayella was abused by her own father. Even thought he was proved innocent the white jury convicts him. Later Tom tried to escape but gets shot to death. Mayellas father Bob feels embaressed so he attacks Toms widow, breaks into the judges house, and then attacks Jem and Scout when they were walking home. Boo sees it happening and intervenes and saves Jem and Scout and stabbed Bob. He carries Jem back home and to protect him Jem tells the sherrif that Bob fell over a tree branch. He later disappears into the Radley house. Later Scout feels bad for Boos way of living and finally sees him as a person.