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Hi! My name is Jean Louise Finch. But everyone calls me Scout. I'm six years old and I live in Maycomb, Alabama, a town in the south of the United States.

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It's the 1930's and America is very poor at the moment. There are very few jobs and families are struggling to even buy food.
People are calling it
"The Great Depression".

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As well as that, racism and prejudice are a part of everyday life!

My dad told me that racism is when someone discriminates a person because of the colour of their skin or religion.

Prejudice is when someone unfairly judges someone before knowing anything about them.

In particular, the black members of our community are treated very badly by the white people. They have made laws that keep them separate.

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There are many laws that keep white and black people apart.
1. There are separate sections in public places for white and black people.
(White people mostly have the better seats)
2. Black people have to cross the street if they were walking on the same one as a white person.
3. A black and white person cannot marry or even be friends.
There are so many more and all of these rules, if broken, can be punishable by death

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I live near the centre of town with my dad, Atticus and my brother Jem.
Atticus is a very different from the other adults in the town.
He's a lawyer and doesn't treat the black people in the community badly, the way that the rest do.
We spend a lot of time reading together. He's a very wise and understanding man.

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Atticus Finch Teaches His Daughter Scout the Best Lesson in To Kill a Mockingbird

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Uploaded by Law Offices of John M. Phillips on 2014-08-12.

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My brother Jem and I are very close. We do everything together. He's very protective of my father and I. Even if I do annoy him sometimes, I know that he'd do anything for me

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To Kill a Mockingbird Official Trailer #1 - Gregory Peck Movie (1962) HD

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Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Alabama, United States.
Her first book, "To Kill a Mocking Bird" was published in 1960. It was based on an event that happened in her own town in 1936 when Lee was only 10.
It was immediately successful and is a classic of modern American literature.
"To Kill a Mocking Bird" was Harper Lee's only published book until 2015 when she published "Go Set a Watchman", a sequel to "To Kill a Mocking Bird". Lee died in 2016.