To Kill a Mockingbird follows the story of three kids during their summers together in a fictitious county called Maycomb County in Alabama during the 1930s. These kids are brother and sister, Jem and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, and their neighbor, Dill Harris. To Kill a Mockingbird follows these kids as they try to get their mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley, out of his house. Though the Finchs' father, Atticus Finch, said to leave him alone, the kids still try to get him outside. To Kill a Mockingbird also ties in a story about Atticus, who is a lawyer, who takes a case to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell, who is the daughter of a racist and stuck-up man when African Americans still didn't have rights. These two stories walk hand-in-hand together to the inner working of human behavior to make one of the greatest novels of all time.