In To Kill A Mockingbird, who are the main characters? What is the setting? What is the problem/challenge in the story? What is the solution to the problem? List 3 events in the story.

The novel takes in the small, sleepy town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s. The main problem or challenge in the story is that a black man, Tom Robinson, is falsely accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Even though he is innocent, white racism and the maintenance of white supremacy dictate that his trial is a sham: he has to be found guilty, according to values of the white community, so that blacks don't get uppity and so that they understand that whites always have the upper hand. What complicates the situation is that Atticus Finch, Robinson's public defender, decides to mount a real defense of this innocent man, riling the white community.
The story is told from the point of view of Atticus's daughter, Scout. Three events in the story include the burning down of their neighbor, Miss Maudie's house, the Robinson trial, and Bob Ewell's Halloween knife attack on Scout and Jem in revenge for Atticus's defense of Robinson.
The resolution of the problem of Tom Robinson's trial is that he is found guilty, even though it is clear he is innocent. He is killed in jail and Bob Ewell is also killed—by Boo Radley, the Finch's reclusive neighbor, who defends them from Ewell.