Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a Southern Gothic novel set in Maycomb County, Alabama during the early 1930s. The main characters include Scout, the narrator and protagonist, and the antagonist, Bob Ewell. The conflict occurs when Bob Ewell accuses a black man, named Tom Robinson, of raping his daughter. Scout’s father, Atticus, defends Tom in court, and the trial exposes Scout, her older brother Jem, and their friend Dill to racism and the corruptness of human nature. Tom Robinson is an innocent man; however, he is found guilty by a jury consisting of all white men. The children discover the reality of how hateful people are capable of being to another individual simply because of the color of their skin. Lee’s novel explores the harsh
