In Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, an all-white jury in Maycomb, Alabama convicts Tom Robinson of raping Mayella Ewell. Robinson's morally upright defense attorney, Atticus Finch, therefore loses the case.
The 1962 film version follows the same storyline. In 2003, however, the American Film Institute presented a television special listing the Top 50 movie heroes and Top 50 movie villains of all time. According to AFI, the No. 1 hero in movie history was Finch, played in the screen version of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Gregory Peck.
Jem thinks the case is won at the end of Chapter 17 in "To Kill a Mockingbird" because he believes Atticus has convinced the jury with his powerful closing argument. Jem is optimistic and trusts in his father's abilities as a lawyer.
Boo Radley
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Gregory Peck won the 1962 Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Alabama defense attorney Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee was copyrighted in 1960.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck won the 1962 Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Alabama defense attorney Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
The small odd boy who won the beautiful child contest in "To Kill a Mockingbird" is Cecil Jacobs, a classmate of Scout Finch. He wins the contest to be the Tenth-Annual Maycomb County Beautiful Child.
The haverfords
Agreeing to take on Tom robinson's case