Title explaination: The title comes from something both Atticus and Miss Maudie tell Jem and Scout. The title comes from the sentence: "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird". The book isn't called It's a sin to kill a mockingbird because the title must be a little vague. The book is all about getting you to ask questions and so does the title. Even before the begin of the story you ask yourself questions about the uses or uselessness of violence. The whole book is about racism and violence. Therefore, the book is called To Kill A Mockingbird.%MCEPASTEBIN%

Summery (in one sentence): This is a story about how everyone can be inoccent and that we should not jugde a book by it cover.

Exposition: the firts part of the book

Complication: an innocent black man has to go on trial for rape.

Climax: They find out that he is innocent

Resolution: non, they can't save hem because he is black

Start of the book: Starts at the end, scout tells that her brother jem broke is arm.

Narration: first-person 

Main characters: Jean Louise Finch also known as Scout. She is the daughter of Atticus Finch and the younger sister of Jem. During the story you get everything with it as she inherits. Scout is a girl, but no girly girl. She is tough, not fast to be scared and she does not want to act like a lady. She is very in love with Dill, which each summer comes and she gets engaged at an early age. She is doing her best to not suffer for her father and to behave well, but with her own personality and the plans of Jem and Dill this does not work always. Scout and her brother are smart kids for their age as the can read and write at a younger age than they were supposed to. 

Setting: takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during 1933–1935. 

Themes: The themes of this book are: racism, family, justice and judgment. Of course, there are other themes to be fond if you read the book in another perspective. You can find these themes through the whole book. In this time racism is the daily basis, it's completely normal that coloured people have less rights than white people. The colour of people's skin decides how other people look at them and treat them. This is not fair and Scout knows this. The skin-color has a big influence in the lawsuit of Tom. The judgement of people is very important in a small town, where everybody knows everybody. Justice is always very important in a community, but in the lawsuit of tom this is not the case. For scout is family very important, specially her father, brother and Calpurnia

Literary devices: allusions, forshadowing and metaphores.

Tone/mood: The tone  changes over the course of the novel from chatty and innocent to dark and knowing as Scout loses a degree of her innocence

Impotant Quotes: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." "I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."

Period context: These years place the events of the novel squarely within two important periods of American history: the Great Depression and the Jim Crow era.

Genre: southern gotic, bildugsroman en courtroom drama.

Opinion: I would definitely recommend the book to anyone. It is a beautiful book where everything is described in detail. It's not too sad or too dry or too much information. The book really changed your life. You get just like the people in the book another look at some things. Everything is so well described that you can perfectly live in the situation. However, I would like to warn everyone for the end. It's not the end you expect and if you ask me it's one of the worst endings I've seen so far. But the rest of the book makes  up for it.