A book report Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"
This is the story of a lawyer's effort to defend a wrongly accused black man without sacrificing the innocence of his children.
The novel takes place in the 1930s in a town called Maycomb in Alabama, which is described as a quiet, sleepy and idyllic small town. Where the children play freely and neighbours gossip innocently on the streets, and everything moves at a slow and smooth pace. But as we read along we get to see that it's all a façade and slowly the prejudice and ignorance and the double standards that permeate thi…