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Alabama
To Kill a Mockingbird
Historien foregår i tre år (1933-35) under den store depression i den fiktive "trætte gamle by" Maycomb, Alabama, som er hovedsæde for Maycomb County. Den fokuserer på den seksårige Jean Louise Finch (kaldet Scout), der bor sammen med sin storebror Jeremy (kaldet Jem) og deres enkefar, Atticus, en midaldrende advokat, som er enkemand. Jem og Scout bliver venner med en dreng ved navn Dill, som hver sommer besøger Maycomb for at bo hos sin tante. De tre børn er skrækslagne og samtidig fascinerede af deres nabo, den eneboer Arthur "Boo" Radley. De voksne i Maycomb er tilbageholdende med at tale om Boo, og kun få af dem har set ham i mange år. Børnene nærer hinandens fantasi med rygter om hans udseende og grunde til at holde sig skjult, og de fantaserer om, hvordan de kan få ham ud af huset. Efter to somre i venskab med Dill finder Scout og Jem ud af, at nogen efterlader små gaver til dem i et træ uden for Radley-huset. Flere gange gør den mystiske Boo tegn på hengivenhed over for børnene, men til deres skuffelse dukker han aldrig op i egen høje person.
Alabama
To Kill a Mockingbird
The story takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County. It focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise Finch (nicknamed Scout), who lives with her older brother, Jeremy (nicknamed Jem), and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified yet fascinated by their neighbor, the reclusive Arthur "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo, and few of them have seen him for many years. The children feed one another's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they fantasize about how to get him out of his house. After two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone leaves them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. Several times the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to the children, but, to their disappointment, he never appears in person.
To Kill a Mockingbird