west nile

This thrilling book had two main plot lines. They were separated by part one and part two. The first part was a mystery and it had a lot of suspense, and the second part was mainly based on a court trial.
In the first half Harper Lee tries to keep us in suspense. She first explained where it took place, and who the characters were. “Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks and the courthouse sagged in the square.” (Lee 5) “Set during the depression, the story is recalled from the distance of maturity by Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch, whose widowed father, Atticus, was a civilized tolerant lawyer in a backward Alabama town and a brother Jem.” (Lemay 1) Jem and Scout try many different things to get Boo Radley to come out of his house, because no one has ever seen him before. Dill, one of their friends, views Boo as a turtle. He says you have to stick a lighted...