1. Dill arrives in Maycomb to spend the summer with his aunt and befriends Jem and Scout. The children become close friends and the boys are fascinated by the rumors surrounding Boo Radley.
2. Scout has a rough first day at school, which leads to Atticus teaching her an important lesson on perspective.
3. The children embark on a nighttime raid by trespassing into the Radley yard and attempting to get a look at Boo through a window.
4. Atticus tells the children that it is considered a sin to kill a mockingbird while they are playing with their air rifles. Miss Maudie then elaborates on Atticus's comment by telling the children that mockingbirds are defenseless, innocent beings that spread joy.
5. Atticus shoots and kills a rabid dog named Tim Johnson in the middle of the street, which astonishes and impresses his children.
6. Jem and Scout learn about real courage from their experience with Mrs. Dubose, who managed to conquer her morphine addiction before she died.
7. Scout and Jem attend First Purchase African M.E. Church with Calpurnia and gain insight into the African-American community.
8. Atticus prevents the Old Sarum bunch from lynching Tom Robinson before the trial.
9. Tom Robinson is wrongly convicted of assaulting and raping Mayella Ewell. The children lose their childhood innocence by witnessing racial injustice firsthand.
10. Scout attends Aunt Alexandra's missionary circle and Atticus interrupts it to tell them that Tom Robinson has been shot and killed attempting to escape from Enfield Prison Farm.
11: Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout and Boo Radley comes to their rescue.
12: Scout walks Boo Radley home and views the neighborhood from his perspective for the first time, which illustrates her maturation and moral development.
Scout, Jem, and Dill try to make Boo Radley come out.
Atticus is appointed the defense attorney for Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape by Mayella Ewell, a white woman. His defending Robinson is unpopular with Maycomb’s white population.
Scout gets into fights with schoolmates and her cousin Francis defending her father, even though she doesn’t really understand what the fuss is about.
Boo Radley leaves presents for Scout and Jem, showing that he is not a monster and is really just a shy recluse who wants friends.
There is a fire at Miss Maudie’s house. Boo Radley puts a blanket on Scout’s shoulders.
Scout’s Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with them to support her brother.
The Trial starts. Atticus demonstrates that no one called for a doctor for Mayella, that her injuries were most likely caused be her father, and that Tom Robinson’s crippled shoulder makes it almost impossible for him to have committed the crime he was accused of.
The trial demonstrates how ugly racism is in Maycomb. Dill has to leave during the proceedings, unable to stomach the prosecutor Mr. Gilmer’s treatment of Tom Robinson.
“Well, Mr. Finch didn’t act that way to Mayella and old man Ewell when he crossexamined them. The way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time an‘ sneered at him, an’ looked around at the jury every time he answered—” (Ch. 19)
9. Tom Robinson is convicted, but Atticus considers the jury's deliberation a minor moral victory.
... Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. (Ch. 22)
10. Tom Robinson is shot trying to escape prison.
11. Bob Ewell threatens Atticus, spitting in his face. Atticus dismisses the threat.
12. Boo Radley stops Bob Ewell from hurting Scout and Jem, killing Ewell. Jem only has a broken arm and Scout is relatively unharmed.
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