Chapter 1 Summary Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, narrates the story. She begins by recounting her family history. The first of her ancestors to come to America was a fur-trader and part-time doctor named Simon Finch, who fled England to escape religious persecution and established a large farm on the banks of the Alabama River. The farm, called Finch's Landing, supported the family for more than a hundred years. The first Finches to make a living …showed first 75 words of 10780 total…

…showed last 75 words of 10780 total…mockingbird." Then she takes him home, and Atticus' admonition to step into someone else's shoes is also invoked, as Scout suddenly sees the world through Boo's eyes. The novel ends here, and the reader is offered no details of Scout's future, except that Boo is never seen again. We have a sense, however, that the story has embraced her entire childhood, and Scout thinks that they have not much more to learn, "except possibly algebra."