To kill a mockingbird by Harper lee the book to kill a mockingbird is about a small country town with many racial problems with a trial on a black man who is accused of raping a white girl the odds are against him and he has no one to defend him except one man who isn’t overcome by the racism in the town so he decides to defend the mans life. the man being accused of the crime is tom Robinson and the girl accusing him is mayella ewell and the lawyer defending tom Robinson is atticus finch. The whole story pretty much revolves around atticus finch and his family mainly his daughter sc