I personally do not believe you need to know any information before reading this novel. Although I may be saying this because the information I needed to know I already knew. You tend to figure out things in this novel pretty quickly. Even though at the beginning of this novel many things happened they all were pretty spaced out you had time to figure out what you needed too. And there are things that happen before the novel that are mentioned that you have to figure out. Such as Scout’s mother dying or Dill and Scout being “in love”. I didn’t realize either of these things until they were blantly mentioned in the novel. Then this novel goes into this almost foreshadowing. I say this because once you get far enough in the book you know that a big fight happens and in the beginning of the novel it talk about Jem having a broken arm and the Ewells being involved in this. It talks about many different things in the first chapter and bounces
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She is a big tomboy, and hangs out with her older brother Jem and their friend, who comes down in the summer, Dill. They live in Maycomb, Alabama, in 1933, though the plot is through multiple winters and summers. The setting is important because these people live down south where many people are racist, and one of the main conflict of the story has to do with race.
One of the first conflicts in this story is Boo Radley. These kids are almost petrified of this guy the have heard stories of their whole lives. A main part of the first part of the book is the kids facing their fear of Boo Radley. They have many ‘encounters’ with Boo, although there is no proof of it being Boo they encounter, that will remain a mystery for the time being. They act out many things during this part of the book that were not the smartest decisions, such as how Dill had dared Jem to go touch the Radley house believing Jem would not follow through on the
She is a big tomboy, and hangs out with her older brother Jem and their friend, who comes down in the summer, Dill. They live in Maycomb, Alabama, in 1933, though the plot is through multiple winters and summers. The setting is important because these people live down south where many people are racist, and one of the main conflict of the story has to do with race.
One of the first conflicts in this story is Boo Radley. These kids are almost petrified of this guy the have heard stories of their whole lives. A main part of the first part of the book is the kids facing their fear of Boo Radley. They have many ‘encounters’ with Boo, although there is no proof of it being Boo they encounter, that will remain a mystery for the time being. They act out many things during this part of the book that were not the smartest decisions, such as how Dill had dared Jem to go touch the Radley house believing Jem would not follow through on the