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Scout Finch lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed dul father, Atticus, in the sleepy hareketsiz Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent meşhur lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably epey well off in comparison to kıyasla the rest gerisi of society. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named 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 tekin olmayan house on their street called the Radley Place. The house is owned by Mr. Nathan Radley, whose brother, Arthur (nicknamed Boo), has lived there for years without venturing cesaret etmek outside.
Scout goes to school for the first time that fall sonbahar and detests iğrenmek it. She and Jem find gifts apparently belli ki left for them in a knothole budak deliği 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 maskaralık,urging zorlamak 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 emlak, where Nathan Radley shoots at them. Jem loses his pants in the ensuing ardından gelmek escape. When he returns for them, he finds them mended tamir etmek and hung over the fence. The next winter, Jem and Scout find more presents in the tree,presumably muhtemelen left by the mysterious Boo. Nathan Radley eventually plugs hımlamak the knothole with cement macun. Shortly thereafter, a fire breaks out çıkmak in another neighbor's house, and during the fire someone slips a blanket on Scout's shoulders as she watches the blaze.Convinced ikna olmuş that Boo did it, Jem tells Atticus about the mended pants and the presents.
To the consternation şaşkınlık of Maycomb's racist ırkçı white community, Atticus agrees to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping ırzına geçme a white woman. Because of Atticus's decision, Jem and Scout are subjected maruz kalmak to abuse from other children, even when they celebrate Christmas at the family compound bileşim on Finch's Landing. Calpurnia, the Finches' black cook aşçı, takes them to the local black church, where the warm and close knit birbirine bağlı community largely embraces kabul etmek 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, runs away and comes to Maycomb. Tom Robinson's trial dava begins, and when the accused man is placed in the local jail, a mob çete gathers to lynch linç etmek him. Atticus faces the mob down the night before the trial. Jem and Scout, who have sneaked gizlice girmek out of the house, soon join him. Scout recognizes one of the men, and her polite questioning about his son shames him into dispersing ayırmak;bölüştürmek the mob.
At the trial itself, the children sit in thecolored 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 uygunsuz teklif 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 to death. In the aftermath of the trial, Jem's faith in justice is badly shaken sallamak, and he lapses sapmak into despondency umutsuzluk and doubt endişe.
Despite karşın the verdict hüküm, Bob Ewell feels that Atticus and the judge have made a fool out of him, and he vows ant içmek revenge intikam. He menaces gözdağı vermek Tom Robinson's widow, tries to break into zorla girmek the judge's house, and finally attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a Halloween party. Boo Radley intervenes araya girmek, however, saving the children and stabbing bıçaklamak Ewell fatally during the struggle. Boo carries the wounded Jem back to Atticus's house, where the sheriff, in order to protect Boo, insists that Ewell tripped over takılmak, tökezlemek a tree root kök and fell on his own knife. After sitting with Scout for a while, Boo disappears once more into the Radley house.
Later, Scout feels as though she can finally imagine what life is like for Boo. He has become a human being to her at last. With this realization, Scout embraces her father's advice to practice sympathy and understanding and demonstrates that her experiences with hatred nefret and prejudice peşin hüküm will not sully kirletmek her faith in human goodness.