To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Short summary

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The work tells the story of the meeting of a girl nicknamed Eyeball and her friends with Scarecrow Redley, whose house was bypassed by everyone. After a while, the characters realize that Scarecrow is a good man.

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Jean-Louise Fitch lives in a small house on Main Street in Maycomb. The heroine’s father was a lawyer and worked as a trial lawyer. He also had his own law office. Several years ago the man had been widowed and was now raising 2 children alone. Jean-Louise, nicknamed Eyeball, had an older brother, Jim.

Next door to the Fitchas lived the Redley family, which was notable for being unsociable. The couple’s bogeyman son, Radley, got mixed up with bad company, after which his father locked him up in the house. He was feared by all the children in town and shunned the neglected house.

The legend of the Scarecrow’s cursed house appealed to the Eyeball’s new neighbor, Dill, who came to visit his aunt for the summer. The heroes tried to lure Scarecrow out of the house, but they failed.

When Eyeball went to school in the fall, she had to walk past the cursed house every day. There were oak trees growing nearby, in which the girl began to find gifts: gum and pennies. The next summer, the boys tried to lure the Scarecrow out again.