In this book by Harper Lee, we learn all about racism and inequality throughout America. Furthermore, we learn about the hierachy in society and how people can be treated differently when they speak out rather than follow the crowd.
In chapter 1, Scout, who is known as Jean Louise Finch, talks about how her brother Jem, older by 4 years, broke his arm badly at the elbow when he was thirteen. To this day she insists that the entire incident began with the Ewell family, the most wretched family in Maycomb County, but Jem disagrees. He believes that the whole thing started way back when Dill came from Meridian, Mississippi, to spend his first summer in Maycomb with his aunt, Rachel Haverford, the Finch's neighbor. To take a broader view of things, Scout suggests that it all started when General Jackson chased the Creek Indians north and Simon Finch, their ancestor, moved up the river and built Finch's Landing. Because they couldn't decide who wassdafhkjdlsfhlkdhsfkljdhsfkjhdljkfhljsdkhflkjdsbnfckbdfkgd
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