The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus-three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out." I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
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