Ubit' peresmeshnika…

"Ubit' peresmeshnika" (1960 g.) - pronzitel'naya istoriya sem'i, zhivuschey v vymyshlennom malen'kom gorodke na yuge Ameriki, v shtate Alabama. Vremya deystviya - 30-e gody XX veka, period Velikoy Depressii. Rasskaz vedetsya ot lica vos'miletney devochki. Glavnaya geroinya Dzhin Finch zhivet s otcom Attikusom, advokatom, i bratom Dzhimom. U nih s bratom est' drug Dill, i odin vrag na troih - sosed po prozvischu Strashila. Mir glazami rebenka - slozhnyy, protivorechivyy, neodnoznachnyy, - pronositsya pered chitatelem. Vse smeshalos' v etom mire: detskie strahi i vzroslye problemy, zhazhda spravedlivosti i gor'kaya real'nost', rasovye problemy amerikanskogo yuga i slozhnosti otdel'no vzyatoy sem'i. V centre syuzheta - sudebnyy process nad chernokozhim parnem, ego obvinyayut v iznasilovanii, kotorogo on ne sovershal. Advokatom vystupaet otec Dzhin Attikus i boretsya izo vseh sil, chtoby spravedlivost' vostorzhestvovala.