A Quick Summary

To Kill a Mockingbird is about a young girl named Scout Finch and how she matures over the course of two years in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Scout and her brother very much like to hear stories and talk about seeing their mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. Their father, Atticus, is a lawyer who defends a wrongly accused black man. The case is regarding the rape of Mayella Ewell. The Finch kids become very interested in the trial and wonder why he is being accused. After the trial is over, Bob Ewell tries to kill the Finch kids and Boo Radley comes out of his house and saves them. Bob Ewell is killed. The kids learn a life lesson that most people are  real nice “when you finally see them”(Lee 376).