Lee Harper, "Kill a Mockingbird": a summary of the chapters

Sometimes it seems to the students that they are being asked too much. If you do not have time to read several voluminous chapters of the book, you will come to the aid of her retelling. This also applies to the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". The short content of the work will become a real wand, if you need 10 minutes to understand what this great work is about.

Structure and beginning of the book

The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", the brief content of which you will learn right now, was invented by the English writer Harper Lee. It was first published in 1960.

The book consists of 31 chapters and is divided into 2 parts. The first includes chapters 1 through 11, and the second includes chapters 12 through 31.

It is written in the epilogue that lawyers were once people, and this is not accidental, since in the center of the narrative the family of attorney Atticus Finch and his children - the eldest boy Jim and the youngest girl Louise, all called Glasastic.

From the first chapter of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird", the brief content of which you read, we learn that at the beginning of the narrative, the boy was about 10 years old, and the girl - about six. The children did not have a mother, she died when Louise was 2 years old. She was replaced by her father Attikus Finch, who was assisted by a Negro servant Calpurnia.

The Story of Radley

That summer, a nephew, Dill, came to them in a small town of Meikomb, to a neighbor. He said that he is 7 years old. The children quickly became friends, Jim and Glazastik told a new acquaintance about the house of Scarecrow Radley. There were rumors that there lives an evil spirit that goes out at night and commits petty crimes. They also said that when Radli was a teenager, he was in a bad company. Then the young men from this group entered the schools, got education, and Radley's father locked him in the house and did not let him go since.

Somehow the Scarecrow, whose real name Arthur, cut out scissors pictures, past his father. The son stuck a pair of scissors in the leg, took them out and continued to do their work, as if nothing had happened. Senior Radley did not call the police, but could so talk with his son that he generally stopped going out and 15 years it no one saw.

Dilla was so shocked by these rumors that he ran into the wicket gate, got home to Radley's house and fled back. This he proved to new friends that he was brave. This concludes the first chapter of Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", the summary of the work proceeds to the following.

What the 2, 3 and 4 chapters narrate about

In early September, Dill went home, and Glazastik went to first grade. On the first day, there were no incidents, but they show the girl's kindness.

When the children got breakfast at the break, brought from home, Walter Cunningham - a poorly dressed child, did not eat anything. The teacher wanted to lend him money for lunch, but he did not take it, she insisted. Then Louise tried to explain to the teacher that a boy from the Cunningham family, they were poor, they would not be able to give money, but she had no need for brushwood. Louise meant that they can only pay off with natural products, but the disgruntled teacher Miss Caroline slapped the girl lightly on the arms with a ruler. It was a punishment.

It was not painful, but offensively, so Glasastic flew at the change to Walter and began to poke his nose into the ground. Spas Cunningham Jim, who invited him to dinner with them. After eating, the children again went to school. But Louise did not like it there, because the teacher said that she reads wrong, although this girl was taught by her beloved father.

We learn this from chapter 3 of the first part of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird". The summary immediately goes to the fourth. She tells that the girl began to find small but pleasant gifts in the hollow of the tree - chewing gum, old coins in a box, and later (in chapter 7) - wooden dolls, one was like her, the second one was like a brother. In the end, we learn that the Scarecrow did them to them.

Fifth to eighth chapters

In the fifth chapter we get acquainted with another neighbor of the children - Miss Modi. She told them what a good, brave and respected person Atticus. Prior to this, Glazastik did not know that he, it turns out, was a very good shooter.

The sixth chapter captivates the story of the tricks of children who still climbed into Radley's garden, while Jim left his trousers under the fence when he climbed over it. Imagine his brother's surprise with his sister when the next morning they found the pants that someone had sewn, stroked and carefully hung on the fence.

Only in the end we learn that the good Scarecrow did it. In the meantime, we move on to the following events in the book "Kill a Mockingbird." A summary of the chapters came to the 7th part, which tells that Louise entered the 2nd grade. The eighth tells how the snow was so rare for these places, and the children sculpted from it and the snowman's dirt.

Chapter 9-11

In chapter 9, Louise heard for the first time that her father would defend the Negro in court and many did not approve of it. The girl defended the honest name of her father, as she could, flying with fists against her peers, who insulted Atticus. The tenth chapter tells how he was able to shoot from afar and get into a rabid dog and thereby save the inhabitants of the town from it.

In chapter 11, the father taught the lessons of correct education-he said that Jim, who had trampled the camellias of Mrs. Dubois, would now go to her every day and read. The boy did this because she also said bad things about their father. When the deadly sick old woman died, Jim handed a box of camellia. This concludes Chapter 11 and 1 part of Harper's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." The summary will tell about the second part.

The second part of the novel

From it readers will learn that the negro Tom Robinson is accused of raping the girl of Mayella. Even when the investigation was being conducted, her father Bob Ewell persuaded the men and they arrived at the police station to commit lynching. But the brave Atticus Finch found out about the conspiracy and decided to watch. Jim and Louise came secretly after their father. The immediate girl saved Atticus. She saw Walter Cunningham in the crowd and said that she was studying with his son in the same class, was friends, and he was at their dinner. She was able to touch the heart of a man, he told the raiders that they would return home.

Just by chance, the children got to court. My father did not want this, because the topic is not for children's ears. A wise lawyer was able to destroy all the prosecution's arguments and prove that Tom Robinson was not to blame.

This he could not forgive Bob Ewell. He watched the lawyer's children when they walked from the school costume ball and attacked them. Louise was rescued by her uncomfortable, but rather durable pumpkin costume, and by Jim Scarecrow Radley. In the battle Ewell was killed, but the sheriff did not initiate proceedings, he told everyone that Bob fell on his knife.

The work ends very touchingly - the girl takes the hand of their savior - Strashila Radli, escorts to the house and talks, as with an old friend.

This concludes the retelling of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird". Summary of the English language schoolchildren can compose themselves, simply translate this article.