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    Mar 22, 2008, 06:08 PM
    In "To Kill a Mockingbird" what is the relationship between Scout and Atticus ?
    If anyone can answer this question, you could be soooo much help, like I would owe you big time. It would mean so much to me! :);)
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    Mar 22, 2008, 06:27 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by tdott
    If anyone can answer this question, you could be soooo much help, like I would owe you big time. It would mean so much to me !! :);)
    Refresh my memory... been a long time atticus is who? I know scout was a child in the book.
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    Mar 22, 2008, 06:30 PM
    See also: List of characters in To Kill a Mockingbird
    The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama. The narrator, six-year-old Scout Finch, lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. The three children are terrified by, and fascinated with, their neighbor, the reclusive "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo and for many years, few have seen him. The children feed each other's imaginations with rampant rumors about his grotesque appearance and his reasons for remaining hidden, while they dream of ways to get him to come out of his house. Following two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone is leaving them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. Several times, the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to the children, but, to their disappointment, never appears in person.

    Atticus is assigned to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability. Scout is subjected to other children taunting Atticus, calling him a "nigger-lover", and she is tempted to stand up for her father's honor by fighting, even though he has told her not to. For his part, Atticus faces a group of men intent on lynching Tom, but this danger is averted when Scout, Jem, and Dill shame the mob into dispersing by forcing them to view the situation from Atticus' and Tom's points of view.

    Because Atticus does not want them to be present at Tom Robinson's trial, Scout, Jem and Dill watch in secret from the colored balcony. Atticus establishes that the accusers—Mayella and her father and the town drunk, Bob Ewell—are lying. It also becomes clear that the friendless Mayella was making sexual advances towards Tom and that her father caught her in the act. Despite significant evidence of Tom's innocence, he is convicted. Jem's faith in justice is badly shaken, as is Atticus', when a hopeless Tom is shot and killed while trying to escape from prison.
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    Mar 22, 2008, 06:31 PM
    I know it is a bit long but I hope it helps. It was a great novel
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    Mar 22, 2008, 06:31 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by tdott
    If anyone can answer this question, you could be soooo much help, like I would owe you big time. It would mean so much to me !! :);)
    Scott is Atticus's child.
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    Mar 22, 2008, 06:35 PM
    If my memory is correct "yes " I don't remember when his "scout"'s mother died..
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    Mar 22, 2008, 06:59 PM
    Atticus is Scout's father. Atticus was raising her and her brother alone. I certainly hope your not a Junior or Senior in High School thinking this is going to get you through the test on this book. And a word to the wise, for any that are trying the "easy" way out, the book and movie is different.
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    Feb 17, 2011, 02:49 PM
    I am in the process in reading this book, and I'm only in the seventh grade!!

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