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29.01.2023 21:53 •  Английский язык

To kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and get brother, (1), in 1930`s Alabama. Through their neighborhood meandering and the example of their father, they

grow to understand that the world isn’t always fair and that (2) is a real aspect of their

world no matter how subtle it seems.

The summer when Scout was six and Jem was ten, they met (3), a little boy who spent

the summer with his aunt who lived next door to the Finches. Dill and Jam become obsessed with

the idea of making Boo (4) , the neighborhood recluse, come out of his home. They go

through plan after plan, but nothing draws him out. However, these brushes with the

neighborhood result in a tentative friendship over time and soon the Finch children realize that

Boo Radley deserves to live in (5) , so they leave him alone.

Scout and Jem`s God-like father, (6) , is a respected and upstanding lawyer in small

( 7)County. When he takes on a case that pits innocent, black Tom (8) against

two dishonest white people, Atticus knows that he has to defend the man or he can’t live with

himself. The case is the biggest thing to hit Maycomb County in years and it turns the whole town

(9) Atticus, or so it seems. Scout and Jem are forces to bear the slurs against their

father and watch with shock and disillusionment as their fellow townspeople (10) an

obvious innocent man because of his race. The only real enemy that Atticus made during the

case was Bob (11 , the trashy white man who accused Tom Robinson of raping his

daughter, ( 12) . Despite Ewell`s vow to avenge himself agains Atticus, Atticus doesn’t

view Ewell as any real threat.

Tom Robinson is sent to a work prison to await another trial, but before Atticus can get him to a

court again, Tom is (13) for trying to escape the prison. It seems that the case is finally

over and life returns to normal until (14) night. On the way home rom a pageant, Bob

Ewell (15) Jem and Scout in the darkness. After Jem`s arm is badly (16) , their

ghostly neighbor , Boo Radley, (17) Scout and her brother. In order to protect Boo`s

privacy, the sheriff decides that Bob Ewell (18) on his own knife while he was struggling

with Jem. Boo Radley returns home never be seen again.

Through the events of those two years, Scout learns that no matter their differences or

peculiarities, the people of the world and of Maycomb County are all people. No one is (19)

or better than anyone else because they`re all people. She realizes that once you get to

(20) them, most people are good and kind no matter what they seem like on the outside.​