Scout Finch, almost six years old, her brother Jem, four years older, and their friend Dill, spend their summer thinking of ways to lure Boo Radly from his house.
The next summer Dill returns. Rolling inside a runaway tire, Scout accidentally slammed into the Radly porch. She heard laughing inside as she recovered and ran.
Scout and Jem began hearing their father called a, "nigger-lover," around town, for defending a black man, Tom Robinson. Atticus, their father was a lawyer, and he kept his head up high, and also told his kids to do the same.
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