This summer, Scout and Jem had a new friend name Dill. Dill came to live as their neighborhoods. They always play around their homes and nearby everyday. Not far away from their homes, there was a mystery house. The maniac man who has not been seen for many years by anybody as a result of never leaving his house owned it. His name is Boo Radley. With their curiosity, the three children sneaked onto that house at night. Boo shot at them for warning. Jem was frightened and lost his pant while he was escaping. After they hurried to come back home, Atticus asked and warned them to avoid to torment Boo. Both of them understood and went to bed immediately. At the morning, Scout went to school for the first time with unwillingness and detestation. Scout had a fight with one boy, but Jem obstructed. Jem solved the problem by inviting dinner for that boy. Atticus said sorry to that boy for Scout's mistake and everybody also had the conservation with him. One day ,after Scout and Jem came back from school, they found the gifts (soap engraved dolls) that was left for them in a knothole of a tree on Boo's house. At that night, they was surprised and discussed about mystery owner of soap engraved dolls on the bed. One day, the children followed Atticus to watch a rape trial, in which an innocent black man, Tom Robinson. He was wrongfully guilty of raping Mayella Ewell, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Among Atticus' arguments, he pointed out that Tom was crippled in his left arm, and the supposed rapist would have had to make extensive use of his left hand to have carried out the crime the teenage. Atticus also brought to light the alarmingly suspicious fact that the girl had not even been examined by a doctor to check for signs of rape after the supposed assault. Atticus seriously plead to the jury for them to discard their prejudices against blacks and focused on the evidence of Tom's obvious innocence instead. Tom was doomed, when he took the stand in his own defense and revealed that he felt pity for the victim due to her circumstances. After the court finished, Atticus arrived home and found out that Robinson has been killed in an attempt to escape from jail. Atticus was subsequently scolded by some people in the town for defending the black man. After a few months passed, many thing appeared to settle down, and Scout went to an Autumn Harvest pageant with Jem. On their way home that night, Scout and Jem are attacked by Bob Ewell, the drunkard father (and the real assailant) of the girl whom Tom Robinson had been falsely accused of molesting. Mr. Ewell stabbed at Scout with a knife, but the chicken-wire framework of her pageant costume protected her from the blade. During the struggle, Jem was unconscious and his arm was broken. But then Bob Ewell is overpowered and killed by a tall dark figure who suddenly appeared on. Scout saw the whole thing from a small view hole in her costume. After the fight ended, Jem was carried home by this mysterious man, that was Arthur "Boo" Radley. Afterwards the secret was revealed that Boo Radley had for a long time assumed the role of the children's guardian angel and often secretly watched over and followed a distance behind Scout and Jem when they were out at night for helping and protect them from danger. Finally, the film ended with Scout considering the past three years' events from Boo's point of view, and with Atticus watching over the sleeping Jem.
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