READ THE BOOK – and then you can do your assignment. There’s no getting around it. It’s your responsibility to read the book.

It’s been years since I’ve read this book – hard to get started – but once inside it – you can’t put it down.

Look for with Scout’s being accosted in the woods, the black man being accused of raping a white woman and the mad dog being shot.

The pace is painfully slow – because it’s a hot summer in the deep south – where everything moves painfully slow. You can almost smell the trees and hear the crickets chirp.

Try discussing how one man can stand up to the crowd. The lawyer defended a black man – in the deep south – before 1960 – and someone (i believe the same man) stood up to the mad dog (by shooting it) where the rest of the community was willing to let things stay the same – and not confront major issues at hand.