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short summary about to kill a mocking bird chapter1-3

Chapter 1
Summary
Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, narrates this story and it is told during the great depression of the 1930’s. She lives in the town of Maycomb, Alabama with her widowed father Atticus, and her older brother by four years, Jeremy Finch (called Jem).
Scout tells us about her ancestors who originally fled England to escape religious persecution and they established a large farm on the banks of the Alabama River called Finch’s Landing. The family was farmers for a hundred years until Atticus became a lawyer in Maycomb while his sister, Alexandra, ran the farm.
At the start of the story, Scout is aged 6. Scout’s mother had died four years previously and their cook, an old black woman called Calpurnia, helps to bring up the two siblings.
An odd boy named Charles Baker Harris, known as Dill, moves in next door for the summer to stay with his aunt, Miss Rachel Haverford. Dill’s parents are getting divorced and he is reluctant to talk about this taboo subject,...

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