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To Kill A Mockingbird - Good Analysis Of The Novel

        The book To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee. It
was published in 1960 then it went on to win the Pulitzer prize in
1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film. Harper Lee
always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is
regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. There are so many
characters in this book that I can't name all of them. Here are most
of the characters.

        The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the
household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus's sister), (Jem) Jeremy (The
oldest of Atticus's two children), (Scout) Jean Louise (The youngest
of the two . She also trys to be a boy by doing boy things). And you
can't forget their black maid. Her name is Calpurnia.

        Miss Rachael is Dill's aunt that lives in Maycomb. Dill is a
friends with Jem and Scout. According to Scout they are married. (Boo)
Arthur Radley is the person that takes Jem back to his house after Jem
gets hurt by Bob Ewell. Tom Robinson is a black man that was accused
of raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell is Mayella's father. He is out for
revenge on Atticus for what he did to him and his daughter. Mayella is
Bob's daughter who supposedly got raped by Tom Robinson. Judge Taylor
is the Judge of Maycomb County. Heck Tate is the county law official.

        I think the protagonist in the story is Atticus Finch because
he has the main part and he has the biggest decision to make. The
decision being whether to defend or not to defend Tom Robinson.

        To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary
district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years
of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread
in the United States.

        The story begins during the summer when Scout and Jem meet a
new playmate named Dill who has come from Mississippi to spend the
summer with his Aunt Rachael. Dill is fascinated by the...