This is a story of a hot, tired town whose inhabitants, almost all of them white, almost all of them poor and sullen, never go anywhere, but who, one day, become one accusing voice: He's guilty! The nigger's guilty! He's the rapist!

And there is only one man, a widower with two children, a lawyer who calmly and patiently dares to defend the Negro. Atticus Finch. And he fails.

This depressing story is from To Kill a Mockingbird. But it is not entir