Two small children in a small Alabama town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man charged with raping a white girl.
Contains a complete plot summary and analysis of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird", as well as discussion of the characters, themes, and includes study questions.
Two children in a small southern town in the 1930s are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father defends a black man charged with raping a white girl.
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brillan perforamnce as the southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film. Set in a dusty souther town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forwad to defend him--except Atticus Finch, the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate but doomed defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect of his two motherless children.
Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.
