To Get You Started...

To Kill a Mockingbird is primarily a novel about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The story covers a span of three years, during which the main characters undergo significant changes. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the fictitious town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small, close-knit town, and every family has its social station depending on where they live, who their parents are, and how long their ancestors have lived in Maycomb.

A widower, Atticus raises his children by himself, with the help of kindly neighbors and a black housekeeper named Calpurnia. Scout and Jem almost instinctively understand the complexities and machinations of their neighborhood and town. The only neighbor who puzzles them is the mysterious Arthur Radley, nicknamed Boo, who never comes outside. When Dill, another neighbor's nephew, starts spending summers in Maycomb, the three children begin an obsessive — and sometimes perilous — quest to lure Boo outside.

Readings

Part 1


Chapter 1 Reading Audiobook (35:43)
Chapter 2 Reading Audiobook (18:38)
Chapter 3 Reading Audiobook (25:01)
Chapter 4 Reading Audiobook (23:51)
Chapter 5 Reading Audiobook (21:40)
Chapter 6 Reading Audiobook (20:13)
Chapter 7 Reading Audiobook (14:33)
Chapter 8 Reading Audiobook (28:28)
Chapter 9 Reading Audiobook (38:24)
Chapter 10 Reading Audiobook (25:49)
Chapter 11 Reading Audiobook (36:47)

Part 2


Chapter 12 Reading Audiobook (31:30)
Chapter 13 Reading Audiobook (21:31)
Chapter 14 Reading Audiobook (24:45)
Chapter 15 Reading Audiobook (30:29)
Chapter 16 Reading Audiobook (26:31)
Chapter 17 Reading Audiobook (22:04)
Chapter 18 Reading Audiobook (29:43)
Chapter 19 Reading Audiobook (26:43)
Chapter 20 Reading Audiobook (19:09)
Chapter 21 Reading Audiobook (15:22)
Chapter 22 Reading Audiobook (13:31)
Chapter 23 Reading Audiobook (28:39)
Chapter 24 Reading Audiobook (28:48)
Chapter 25 Reading Audiobook (10:42)
Chapter 26 Reading Audiobook (16:25)
Chapter 27 Reading Audiobook (18:59)
Chapter 28 Reading Audiobook (34:12)
Chapter 29 Reading Audiobook (10:29)
Chapter 30 Reading Audiobook (17:57)
Chapter 31 Reading Audiobook (13:08)

Analysis/Assistance

 from SparkNotes: Context

 from SparkNotes: Themes

 from SparkNotes: Symbols

 from CliffsNotes: Racial Relations in the Southern United States

 from CliffsNotes: Comparing the Book to the Movies