To Kill A Mockingbird, describe it. Options

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I read relatively fast first of all. I only have three days of summer left and I want to know has anyone read To Kill A Mockingbird. What's it about? Did you like it?

[blubpancake99]

Here's some more on the ending...

There's this family of dirt poor people Scout knows who live, pretty much, in the town dump. One of the children, Mariella (?) liked to ask Tom Robinson (a black man) to come in and pay him a knickel to do chores, and eventually, she tried to kiss him and her racist father saw. Her father began beating her (I don't remember the father's name) so to protect herself she told him Tom had raped her. She brought it to court and Scout's father, Atticus, was Tom's lawyer. Tom did lose the case and get put in jail, where he tried to escape and was shot, but Atticus made Mariella's father look like a fool in front of everyone. Mariella's father swore he would get back at Atticus after that. When Jem and Scout are walking home from their school play, Mariella's father goes crazy attacking them. Scout was wearing this costume made of paper mache and wire or something which protected her (otherwise she probably would have died) and Jem had a broken arm and was knocked unconcious. Neither of them really saw what happened, so you really have to read between the lines to figure it out. My english teacher explained it to us. Basically, Boo Radley comes out (which is amazing because he has only been outside like twice in ten years) with a big kitchen knife and stabs Mariellas father, who dies, in order to protect the children. Then the sherrif comes, but to prevent there from being a big to-do about it he takes away Mariella's father's knife and claims he simply "fell on his knife" even though the knife that killed him was actually Boo's. Does that make any sense? I had to read it for english this year and write a paper on it.